From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (alexy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-26 13:26:41
Beman Dawes wrote:
> Boost doesn't want to get into the compiler conformance and
> performance testing business. But it might be nice to figure
> out a way to shine some light on compilers with less than
> robust preprocessors, very slow preprocessors, less than
> robust template engines, very slow template instantiation,
> and some of the other QOI issues impacting Boost users.
Explicit documentation of the problems a particular library has with
particular compilers could be a first step. Regression tests are not a
replacement for this, because often the library author(s) go a long way to
workaround a lot of those issues. Next step would be to have a page that
contains an index of these issues, categorized by compiler vendor. It would
already be something.
Aleksey