Re: [Quantlib-dev] Preliminary 0.9.0 tarballs - VC++ 2008 Express

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 09:40 +0100, Ferdinando Ametrano wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007 8:56 AM, Luigi Ballabio <lui...@gm...> wrote:
> > I'm not arguing against this.  I'm just doubting the wisdow of adding a
> > new platform to a release that's stable and about to go out the door.
> 
> nobody wants to really change the code base of a stable release.

Define "really change" :)
However, easy fix or not, what we gain is:

a) Coolness points in being the first to support VC9 two weeks after its
release;
b) headaches when people see the VC9 projects, rightfully expect it to
be supported out of the box, find out instead that they have to patch
Boost, and come back for help on the mailing list.

In my personal opinion, the P&L is negative.

How about this: we keep VC9 out of 0.9.0, we wait for the next Boost
release (this month or the next, from what I read on their mailing list)
and we release 0.9.1 in January which adds VC9 support to 0.9.0. In the
meantime, we fix the compilation issues on the trunk.

Later,
	Luigi


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