From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-12 13:54:26
Daniel Frey wrote:
> > The libraries itself are relatively bug-free, but there are plenty of
> > portability problems with some compilers. For the HP-UX, IRIX, and DEC
> > compilers in the versions I have access to, it's probably a waste of
> > time to try and fix problems, unless it's obvious what to do, because
> > the compilers have relatively old front-ends with plenty of
> > non-conformance issues.
>
> I wonder if it's possible to distinguish regressions into "fail" and "not
> supported", where the latter means that it fails and we (currently?)
> can't make it work. This way it might be easier to find regressions that
> are supposed to work but fail because of "accidents" :)
See http://www.mail-archive.com/boost@listarchives.boost.org/msg08641.html for the
thread on this exact topic.
Aleksey