18 Nov
2007
18 Nov
'07
8:29 p.m.
Boost.range has a pile of work-arounds that made it "work" on old compilers that don't do partial template specialization. Nobody is testing those compilers anymore, so it's not surprising that those work-arounds are now broken. To wit, the following program: #include <boost/range/iterator_range.hpp> int main() {} fails to compile on VC6. If nobody is interested in these old compilers, fine. But it seems odd to be shipping work-around code that doesn't work. Should all the PTS work-around code be removed? Or can it be patched up without too much effort? I don't care either way, I just don't want broken code to be shipped. -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com