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reply Daniel James <daniel calamity.org.uk> writes:
Hi Walter,

My patch for type traits have just been comitted to boost CVS, which I 
think will make it easier to get some other parts of Boost working. 
There are still parts of type traits that don't work, but now the most 
important traits do - is_convertible especially.

There was a small fuss when I posted the patches, over whether it's best 
to add work arounds in boost or wait for you to fix bugs in the 
compiler. The patch was applied anyway, but it would be still be useful 
to know if you're likely to fix any of these bugs soon. I'm not trying 
to put any pressure on you, 'no' is always a very good answer. And what 
right would I have to, anyway?

More bug reports soon, I'm afraid.

By the way, if you can only fix one bug report, ignore mine, and go for 
Aleksey's. I realise it doesn't actually work like that, but fixing his 
bug would probably help boost more.

thanks,

Daniel
Aug 24 2004
parent reply "Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:
I intend to fix all the bugs, but I don't have a timeline. I do appreciate
the effort you're putting into the excellent bug reports you post. Also, it
helps to know what the priorities are. -Walter

"Daniel James" <daniel calamity.org.uk> wrote in message
news:412B7993.5080707 calamity.org.uk...

 Hi Walter,

 My patch for type traits have just been comitted to boost CVS, which I
 think will make it easier to get some other parts of Boost working.
 There are still parts of type traits that don't work, but now the most
 important traits do - is_convertible especially.

 There was a small fuss when I posted the patches, over whether it's best
 to add work arounds in boost or wait for you to fix bugs in the
 compiler. The patch was applied anyway, but it would be still be useful
 to know if you're likely to fix any of these bugs soon. I'm not trying
 to put any pressure on you, 'no' is always a very good answer. And what
 right would I have to, anyway?

 More bug reports soon, I'm afraid.

 By the way, if you can only fix one bug report, ignore mine, and go for
 Aleksey's. I realise it doesn't actually work like that, but fixing his
 bug would probably help boost more.

 thanks,

 Daniel
Aug 24 2004
parent Daniel James <daniel calamity.org.uk> writes:
Walter wrote:

 I intend to fix all the bugs, but I don't have a timeline. I do appreciate
 the effort you're putting into the excellent bug reports you post. Also, it
 helps to know what the priorities are. -Walter


OK, thanks for that. Out of all the bugs that I've reported, the 
important ones are: 'Whitespace prevents concatenation' and the implicit 
conversions in 'Bugs affecting boost::is_convertible'.

Daniel
Aug 24 2004