Loïc Joly <loic.actarus.joly@numericable.fr> writes:
Martin Bonner a écrit :
From: David Maisonave
The poll results were suprising.
I was responding specifically to the implication that it was suprising that the percentages added to >100%.
I would have thought by now there would be more developers using 7.1/8.0 than 6.0. If Boost decides to stop supporting VC++ 6.0, or reduce support, than they're going to exclude at lot of developers.
Not really. Changing boost library version is probably less painful than changing compiler version, but I wouldn't do either without compelling reason.
VC6 users can use boost 1.33.1 (or perhaps even 1.34), and that isn't going to suddenly stop working just because 1.35 doesn't support VC6.
No, but if I know that in boost 1.35, some of the bugs that are pesterring me have been corrected, but I cannot use these fixes, I would have to face one choice : - Upgrading my compiler, that may be inconvenient - Correcting boost myself, that is not why I use an external library - Use only home made stuff, less generic, less adaptable, but that I can support
As far as I understand (please tell me if I'm wrong), there is only one supported version of boost.
What do you mean by "supported?"
If I discover a bug in boost::xx, next version of boost will have the correction, but the correction will not be back-ported to older versions, even if the bug was already there.
Not necessarily so. We could decide to do a 1.33.2 release. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com