On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
On 03/11/12 15:52, Beman Dawes wrote:
* Microsoft has released an out-of-band community technical preview (CTP) for their compiler, adding explicit conversion operators, raw string literals, function template default arguments, delegating constructors, uniform initialization, and variatic templates. (See
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Stephan-T-Lavavej-Core-C-/STLCCS... for instructions on how to use the CTP). Microsoft is promising more such feature releases during the first half of 2013. This is important for the whole C++ community, since it means that full C++11 support is becoming a reality across all widely used compilers.
I find the idea of a community technical preview surprising, since Microsoft has been repeatedly refusing to fix bugs reported by the community unless you have purchased commercial support.
Have you filed a bug report recently? I filed one this summer and had a response the next day.
It seems they focus on adding new features rather than fixing bugs. While a good marketing strategy for a commercial product, it arguably doesn't work so well with a "community" approach.
Here some lists of bugs fixed: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/06/15/10320846.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/08/10/10338661.aspx Note that those lists don't include bugs reported by those with commercial support contracts. --Beman