Re: [Boost-users] Most recent version of Boost supporting MSVC6

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Most recent version of Boost supporting MSVC6
From: Attila Feher F (attila.f.feher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-09 08:25:03

Kerry, Richard wrote:
> I thought someone might ask this .....
> 
> 
> I certainly don't "want" to use VC6, but I'm not working on my own on
> independent programs, I'm in a team of about ten people developing
> and maintaining a set of applications that work together.  We'd like
> to move to a new compiler but it'll take a lot of testing to confirm
> that after we've done so everything still continies to work and work
> together (*).  And to confirm that a random mixture of applications
> taken from both groups (VC6 and VCnewer) will work together as that
> is the way our main customer tends to operate. This will all take
> some time and require someone to fund it.       
> And you might well also ask why the testing would be so onerous
> assuming we have automated testing which would deal with this.... (by
> which I mean that we haven't got that) 
> 
> In the meantime I need a Regular Expression library.

Doesn't MS itself have a regexp library?

Attila