Edward Diener wrote:
From an end user's perspective I think it is really important, for a given release and library of Boost, to know whether or not a particular compiler is supposed to work for a particular library. The regression tests do not, unfortunately, always give the end user that information. While I understand the concern for getting out timely releases of Boost which are guaranteed to support a subset of highly conformant compilers, this way of doing things will only make it even more difficult for end-users of those compilers which are not part of that subset to determine whether the latest release of a particular Boost library is supported when using their compiler.
While I agree this might make understanding the status a tiny bit harder, it's worth it for the majority of users to actually have access to the new libraries that have been accepted into boost -- even if regression status is a bit harder to understand. asio was reviewed in Jan of 2006 and if we don't take some radical steps it won't be in a Boost release in 2007 -- almost 2 years later -- the current state of affairs is simply unacceptable. Jeff