> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Sebor > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: 4.2.1 platforms > > 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.
Good point. These platforms should be "obsoleted" (like gcc does) in 4.2.x and then dropped completely in 4.3. Brad.
