Thomas, Robert Ramey wrote:
I think known regressions in a minor release are absolutely unacceptable, even on less important platforms. The whole point of the minor release is to improve on what we got and not to break user code.
These regressions are new ICEs that result from making the follwing changes:
a) Remove header dependencies which many people complained about.
In general I think that's something that should be delayed to the next major release. That being said I don't know the details and in the end it's Doug's call.
b) Correct error which crashed some applications (though none of the tests) when serialization is used from dynamically loaded DLLS. Also times this error crashed applications with some compilers (also none of the tests)
I can see this being important.
So if the indicated regressions are "absolutely unacceptable", then would leaving in the above bugs be acceptable?
AFAICS b is a bug and a is not.
Problem is, you can't have it both ways with this particular compiler (msvc 6.5)
Yes, it is difficult. Thomas -- Thomas Witt witt@acm.org