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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Most recent version of Boost supporting MSVC6
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-09 08:41:22

On 09/02/11 13:25, Attila Feher F wrote:
> 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?

You seem to mean GRETA made by Eric Niebler, yes VC6-compatible indeed.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/bd99f343-4ff4-4041-8293-34c054efe749/default.aspx

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