Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
I in a perfect world, the GCC developers would actually test their compiler on Boost before releasing it, and report back to us that we have invalid code, or fix the compiler.
What's stopping them? Or any compiler vendor for that sake?
See my answer to the opposite question: <http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2010/04/164678.php> Neither msvc-10.0 nor gcc-4.5 are among the compilers that are tested for the release branch <http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/summary.html> for 1.43. So I guess it is a safe assumption that compatibility with msvc-10.0 or gcc-4.5 is not a release criteria for 1.43. Making 1.44 more compatible with gcc-4.5 and MSVC-10 might be a good idea, but the first step in this direction should be to add msvc-10.0 and gcc-4.5 to the regression tests for the release branch. And no, I won't donate machine time for these regression tests. Regards, Thomas