"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
But if we cover all the bugs up with workarounds he'll never see any problems.
Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
Daniel said his fixes don't make DMC pass all the tests. So presumably there'll still be faiulres to point out.
Yes, I've already reported some bugs. As far as type traits were concerened, I only reported bugs that couldn't be worked around, or were likely to cause problems elsewhere. After all, overloading on a (...) parameter is pretty rare. Making a lot of bug reports for something I had got for free seemed a bit cheeky, especially for doing weird things like using const void template parameters, and preprocessor metaprogramming. But, this was probably a mistake. It's up to Walter how important a bug is. I'll write some more test cases and send them to the Digital Mars newsgroup. He can let us know if he's likely to fix them. So far, he hasn't given any indication either way. I do feel that if I am asking him to make changes to support Boost, I should put some effort into getting Boost working on Digital Mars. I can understand why this might not matter to other people, especially since more standard compliant compilers are available for free. Daniel