From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-30 20:56:56
At 08:45 PM 4/30/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> So please don't take it personally, but I'm not going to apply the
>> patches unless someone comes forward with more rationale for
>> supporting reporting tool compilations with VC++ 6.0.
>
>One of these days you might want to assign the job of producing
>regression logs for VC6 to someone who has a real stake in that
>compiler, so you'll have one less thing to test. They might have a
>real stake in it among other things because they don't have anything
>else.
The issue wasn't whether or not to produce regression logs for VC++ 6.0,
but whether the tools to produce the status reports themselves should be
buildable with 6.0. Right now they compile OK on most modern compilers, but
not VC++ 6.0.
--Beman