Re: [Boost-users] Spirit Porting

On 10/31/10 3:40 AM, Bryce Lelbach wrote:

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[snip about IBM compiler issues]

If someone provides me with a licensed copy of IBM's compiler, I will look into the MPL thing and spend some time trying to resolve the issue with Serialization. Unfortunately, my understanding is that IBM's compiler is closed source, which will prevent me from actually fixing any of the compiler's problems instead of just writing workarounds. Because of this, I'm not going to commit large portions of my time to IBM's compiler, as I haven't heard any users asking for this and I'm not a fan of fruitlessly writing workarounds. ...

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:21:45 -0500 "Hartmut Kaiser" wrote:

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Just forget the IBM compiler. It's not up to the task to compile any of Spirit V2 code.

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:34:34 +0800 Joel de Guzman wrote:

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Alas, neither Hartmut nor I have access to the IBM compiler nor have any experience with it.

Ah, but we've got at least one Spirit user who is using Visual Age (Avi), and he was one of the first people to respond to this thread. As I have said, my time is limited, but if someone makes the resources available to me (aka legal copy of Visual Age + documentation), I will put some time into this (I don't think it's too farfetched for me to say that I'm a "compiler hacker").

Re: licensed copy of IBM's compiler: We also discussed that with Michael. Michael mentioned that he wanted to make a platform available for boosters. Perhaps it's time to ask again. Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boostpro.com http://spirit.sf.net