Tim Adams wrote:
IBM dropped support for Visual Age 6 last spring. So while you all may
want to support it as a best effort platform, it probably shouldn't be a
secondary platform.
Thanks for the feedback Tim. I was going to say: Sure thing! but
then I thought about it from the perspective of users of these
platforms who just want to get a few bugs fixed in stdcxx...
It makes sense to me as a general rule to move platform to the Best
Effort category when it ceases to be supported by the vendor. Let
me update our release process document.
For patch releases though, I'm not sure if it should be considered
acceptable to break a platform that worked in the previous release.
My feeling is that in bugfix releases users should be able to rely
on 100% compatibility with the previous release.
I could state many reasons, but suffice it to say
that IMHO MSVC 7.1 should also be on the best effort list.
Thoughts?
If Microsoft still supports MSVC 7.1 (I think that's Visual Studio
2003) we should, IMO, keep in the Secondary category unless doing
so makes things difficult. I don't have a very good sense about
how hard the MSVC 7.1 port is but unless it causing us major
headaches, using VisualAge 6 as a precedent MSVC 7.1 should
remain a Secondary Platform until 4.3.
Martin
-- Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Sebor
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: 4.2.1 platforms
Here's my proposed list of platforms for 4.2.1. I don't think
we can quite meet the release goals outlined in the release
policy (I don't see us cleaning up all the test failures and
warnings on all Primary
platforms) but we might as well try to use the process to the
extent we can.
Let me know if I've missed something. Once we have the final
list I'd like to open a vote on it.
Primary:
HP aCC 6.16/HP-UX
HP aCC 3.74/HP-UX
gcc 3.4, 4/Linux
Intel C++ 10/Linux/Windows
MSVC 8.0, 9.0/Windows
Sun C++ 5.9/Solaris
XLC++ 9.0/AIX
Secondary:
EDG eccp 3.9/Linux
gcc 3.2/Linux
gcc 3.4/FreeBSD
Intel C++ 9.1/Linux/Windows
MSVC 7.1/Windows
Sun C++ 5.9/Linux
Sun C++ 5.8, 5.7/Solaris
XLC++ 8.0, 7.0/AIX 5
VisualAge 6.0/AIX 5
Best Effort:
EDG eccp 3.9/Solaris
gcc 4/Darwin
HP C++ /Tru64 UNIX 6.5
MIPSpro 7.41/IRIX 6.5
Sun C++ 5.3/Solaris
