2011/7/16 Lars Viklund <zao@acc.umu.se>:
The world needs more compilers, and it saddens me when new libraries are developed and deployed claiming to be portable but only really builds on recent GCC and maybe MSVC.
Let me simplify the question: VC++6 and other old compiler builds are totally broken in multiple wide used libraries. 1) Shall I fix and commit bugfixes for those errors (hundreds of them)? I have no time to fix them all. 2) Shall I do nothing? 2.1) Do we need code, old/deprecated headers that does not work at all? 2.2) Why don`t post a warning/error for a user, that this compiler is not supported and '21 error(s), 1674 warning(s)' are not the user fault? 3) Shall I post bug reports for library maintainers? 3.1) They have opened bugs even for new compilers... When will be the fixes ready? Will be there any fixes? Best regards, Antony Polukhin