2009/12/15 Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org>:
Patrick Horgan a écrit :
I was reading the Integral Constant Expressions doc (http://www.boost.org/development/int_const_guidelines.html), last edited in October 2007, and am guessing that some of the warnings are out of date with newer versions of some of the compilers available. Does anyone know?
They're guidelines if you want compatibility with MSVC6 and that kind of old compiler.
My understanding is that it's not mandatory to follow them, and it would be expected that all libraries that use fairly advanced template meta-programming do not.
I think MPL actually makes it quite easy to follow a lot of those guidelines. I don't think we should get rid of information about older compilers, but it could be moved to a less prominent place since it isn't relevant for many new boost developers. I actually accidentally removed the old Visual C++ and Borland development info when we moved to the new site, and I've been wondering if it's worth restoring them somewhere. There hasn't been any demand though. There's a lot of work on the wiki toward establishing new guidelines, at some point someone (i.e. not me, I'm afraid) is going to have to take charge of combining them with the existing guidelines. It might even be worth moving much of the development information over to the wiki, which would let the main website focus on users. Daniel