Dave,
I would be very surprised if nobody has tried before since HP is a top-tier vendor
I have tried, but not in the last 9 months. HP may be "top-tier" but if so their compilers have not proven to be of the same caliber as the rest of the company, at least when it comes to compiling Boost code. The number and severity of the compiler bugs, and the poor quality of the error messages, made the job infeasibly hard.
If you have notes that might be useful or helpful for me (to save me time), I would appreciate it. I have been quite successful in porting code over to aC++ over the years and have reported several compiler/linker/debugger bugs to the HP response center and worked with them to fix problems or find workarounds. The last one I helped fix was the ANTLR parser generator. I'm frantically reading the documentation ... the more I read, the more I like it. A lot of code that we have already written definitely would be better if we had boost years ago. Thanks! -Jerry