On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Eric Niebler <eric@boostpro.com> wrote:
So here's the scoop from Herb. There are two separate things: the rolling releases (like the just-released Update 1 which added XP support to VS'12), and the CTP releases (like the one that just that added variadic templates to the compiler). The former are officially supported, go-live products; the latter are not. There is, and should be, *no expectation* that the features delivered in the CTP releases will ever make it into the officially supported updates.
We also shouldn't expect those features not to be part of a supported update. XP support was also released as CTP (preview) before it was released as Update 1.
On other words, we should operate under the assumption that there will be no improvements in C++11 compliance of any officially supported Microsoft compiler until the next major release of Visual Studio.
That'd be very, very disappointing. -- Olaf