Beman Dawes wrote: [...]
But that isn't the case. Every added compiler delays the release. So the question becomes what compilers can we include and still grind out a release by, say, mid-November?
You seem to be saying that the last release was delayed for so long because there were so many platforms with too long turn around times for testing. I don't think that was the case. It for sure isn't what my experience as a long term regression tester for an exotic platform was. In the year it took for the release to happen, I had Tru64/CXX down to zero regressions quite a few times, despite the long test cycle. Then, the code would site there for a few weeks without any changes, only to be broken by some minor or major check-in afterwards. [...] Markus