"Thomas Witt" <witt@acm.org> wrote in message news:eq8qe0$u9u$1@sea.gmane.org...
Hi,
Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
"Roland Schwarz" <roland.schwarz@chello.at> wrote in message
Unfortunately this seems to collide with the agreement, that 1.34 is the last official release that will support the msvc-6.5 compiler.
No. It does not. In general question of particular platform support is library developer/maintainer decision. I promissed msvc 6.5 support in 1.34 for all features that were available in 1.33.1 including and specifically concentrating on all the features used by boost unit tests. No support for new features is expected.
FWIW Gennadiy is right here with respect to the agreed upon serialization support in 1.34.0. Thanks Gennadiy for wrangling with vc6 so that our regression testing is still working. That being said I would certainly appreciate small low risk changes that solve regression/functionality problems in other libraries with vc6. AFAICS
From what I know, the patch is trying to address errors in Boost.Test own unit tests, which I don't really care to fix for this compiler.