On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:24:28 +0000, Daniel James wrote
Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:
At Friday 2005-02-18 04:13, you wrote:
Hello!
I tried to build the date_date libraries of Boost 1.31.0 with a gcc 2.95.2 compiler on a SuSE 7.0 Linux system. I discovered several problems:
problem 1: you're using an ancient compiler.
And in general we don't make it a point to support these old compilers -- however, if a user goes to the work of creating patches I feel obligated to at least evaluate including them. That said, I do recommend upgrading your compiler because future I/O features in date-time will not be backward compatible to compilers like 2.95.x that don't provide wchar_t support.
problem 2: you're using an out of date version of boost.
He also supplied a patch for Boost 1.32.0.
Yep, the 1.31 patch won't go anywhere since there is no plan for a 1.31.1
I recommend to boost that we not accept patches for the compiler. IMO we cannot afford the effort.
I think that should be up to the maintainers of the individual libraries.
And, I will look at them. These are complex enough and impactive enough on the codebase that I won't guarantee that they will be applied, but I'll evaluate and let you know. Jeff