On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:13:20 +0200, Peter Dimov wrote
Bronek Kozicki wrote:
Peter Dimov <pdimov@mmltd.net> wrote:
Because I may want to? Why should I be prevented from supporting bcc if I so desire? Should I be forced to run my own regression tests in order to provide that support?
I think nobody is going to prevent you from supporting any compiler you want :> However, I do suggest that *if there is new branch* of boost, many regression tests targeted at old (nonconforming) compilers should be pulled out from this branch.
That's what I disagree with. I want these compilers to participate in the regression tests, so that I can see when I inadvertently introduce a regression.
I agree, I don't want the old compilers removed from the regression test sets. Because, my goal for date_time is to keep the current level of support in the old compilers. Thus if a new feature is added to the library and it just works on the legacy compiler that's fine. If there are problems then that compiler that is noted as failing in the compiler support information and that's it. This level of support still requires work to avoid breaking features that are currently working, but not as much as full support. A year from now, I think we could go to the next step and drop support altogether for these older compilers -- meaning stop regression testing against the old compilers. Jeff