On Monday 09 January 2006 12:00, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:dpsa4b$in6$1@sea.gmane.org...
I'm gettng pestered by the automatic regression test failure notification system about Boost.Filesystem with GCC 2.95.3.
Does anyone still care?
I could just mark all the failures as expected, but if no one cares anymore then we ought to stop testing 2.95.3, free up the testing resources and stop pestering Boost developers about 2.95.3 failures.
--Beman
I support this. Pre 3.0.0 release is a cause for huge number of workarounds. Specifically related to classic IO and weak templates support. Lets get rid of these.
Not that I care about 2.95 either, but I think the reasoning in this thread is a bit faulty. Developers just say "it's too old and non-conforming". But who knows what's used in practice, especially outside of bleeding-edge Linux distros? Maybe, the procedure for retiring compilers should including posting a message with prominent subject to boost-users and waiting for a couple of weeks for feedback? - Volodya