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

[Marco M. <mar...@st...>]

Hi,
I have to say I totally agree with Luigi.
If people need a free compiler they can still use VC8.

Marco Marchioro


On Wednesday, 2007-12-05 , at 10:57 , Luigi Ballabio wrote:

>
> 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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