From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-05 08:02:17
From: "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
> From: "Sam Partington" <Sam.Partington_at_[hidden]>
> >
> > Whilst this is clearly a compiler bug, it is such a serious bug (and
> easily
> > brought about during migration of an app from plain pointers to
> > shared_ptr's) would it be possible for a warning in the documentation
for
> > users of MSVC 6 and boost 1.27?
>
> Boost doesn't work that way; older releases are not maintained, including
> the documentation. I can add such a warning in the CVS documentation now,
> and release 1.29 will contain it, but you wouldn't use the 1.29
> documentation with 1.27; there are too many changes.
On reflection, perhaps we need "known issues" sections for each release on
the website? It'll need to be updated more frequently, though.