Re: [Spirit-devel] Issues (Important please read!) Recent additions: Trees for VC6 and new actors plus more...

[Joel de G. <jo...@bo...>]

Peder Holt <bur...@ya...> wrote:
> --- Joel de Guzman <jo...@bo...> skrev:
>> Hi Y'all,
>> 
>> Ok here's the score...
>> 
>> For the 1.8.0 release, my opinion is to not include
>> the VC6
>> tree code. We can add it later. Rationale: even
>> numbered
>> versions must be stable. I think the VC6 patch is
>> not yet stable.
>> 1) What used to work on VC7 does not work with the
>> patch.
> 
> Hmm. This has probably got something to do with the
> BOOST_SPIRIT_DEPENDENT_TEMPLATE_WRAPPER changes
> (adding of the ::param_t.
> Implementation of
> BOOST_SPIRIT_DEPENDENT_TEMPLATE_WRAPPER differs
> between VC6 and VC7.
> Adding the following in the VC7 version might do the
> trick
>   typedef name##_impl<is_msvc_70_ETI_arg<F>::value>::
>       template result_<T> param_t;

Yes, I think that's it. I have created a RELEASE_1_8_0 branch
and left the HEAD CVS with your patch applied. I would appreciate
it a lot if you can make it work with VC7.

> I'll try to get hold of the VC7 compiler to check this
> out.

Great! Thanks!

>> 2) The trees used to work on g++ 2.95.3. Now it is
>> ICEing with the
>> patches. (line 1222, tree/common.hpp). 3) It seems
> 
> Is this compiler available for windows? I haven't got
> linux installed.

I use MinGW and Cygwin. Take your pick. Both are available
for Windows. 

> I'm online using Jabber (burbelgruff) most of the
> time, so just contact me there.

That will be nice. Many thanks!

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net