On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:03:30PM +0200, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: > > >>>>> But why do we still use boost? > >>>> my memory is fading away, but wasn't there some compilation > >>>> problems when we tried to replace something with tr1 in berlin? > >>> I don't know, Andre started working on this but then he stopped. > >> > >> in my memory someone with win compiler started to scream because of > >> compilation problems, so he canceled the work. > > > > Vincent (?) only had msvc 2005 installed which doesn't support tr1. > > I did scream indeed, but I had 'msvc 2008 express'. You need SP1 which > wasn't available for msvc 2008 express back then. However, we've had > this same discussion a few months ago and then I saw that SP1 was now > available also for the express version, so there weren't any > complaints from me. > > But then Enrico mentioned that that would break things on Solaris (?). > And again, Andre stopped. Don't know whether he cared about Solaris or > for some other reason.
I guess it was no fun to listen to screaming people. Andre'
