on Mon Oct 08 2007, "Felipe Magno de Almeida" <felipe.m.almeida-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/4/07, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
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My candidates for the release criteria compilers are:
* Microsoft VC++ 8.0 on Win32 * Intel 10.0 on Win32 * GCC on Linux * GCC on Darwin
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Comments?
I believe we should drop Release criteria compilers concept, and have recommended compilers. Each library mantainer would then choose to mantain or not a particular compiler and document all the compilers he actively mantains. If a new library comes for review which can just run on some set of compilers, excluding maybe two release compilers, should we not accept it?
Maybe only conditionally on support of those compilers. If we choose the release criteria platforms properly, they shouldn't present serious portability problems for any library. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com