Mark Brown wrote:
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Sent: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:59:10 -0700
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Subject: RFC: stdcxx 4.2 platforms
I think it's time for us to start planning the next stdcxx
release. We have fixed a ton of bugs since 4.1.3 and 4.1.4
and there have been a bunch of new platforms that we should
certify (e.g., gcc 4.1 or MSVC 8 to name the most popular
ones). I would also like us to clean up the Cygwin and Mac
OS X ports that didn't work in previous releases. Are there
any other new platforms we should provide support for?
I would find Cygwin test results helpful. It would also be helpful do
semi-regular builds of some popular C++ software with stdcxx (like boost) and
post the results.
I agree that building Boost (and perhaps other popular packages
as well) would be a useful enhancement to the stdcxx test suite.
The problem is first of all porting Boost to stdcxx (i.e.,
getting the infrastructure to work), and then also the cycles
involved in running the Boost test suite and analyzing the test
results. I suppose if someone were to volunteer to do the first
pass (i.e., get the Boost infrastructure ported and help analyze
the first set of results) we could then add it to our automated
test infrastructure and run it perhaps not every night but maybe
weekly or monthly and handle the maintenance of the project.
Martin
