[C++-sig] Patch implementing void * support

[David Abrahams]

Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca> writes:

>>>How is that possible, in general ? Typically a single developer has access
>>>only to a limitted number of platforms / compilers, requiring some form of
>>>cooperation to cover all targetted platforms.
>> 
>> 
>> A developer can't very well target a platform he has no access to, can
>> he?  It's up to Niall to say what he's targeting.  Of course, if the
>> patch is too far off of the set of compilers currently supported by
>> the library, it might not be accepted.
>
> I was thinking of a patch to boost.python (say), which the author (of
> the patch) only tests on a subset of platforms / compilers of the
> platforms / compilers the library author(s) target.
> I don't know the set of supported compilers for boost.python, but I'm
> quite sure it is more than what I have access to. Yet I might be able
> to submit a patch some time or another. What am I supposed to do then ?

Tell me what compilers and platforms you're targeting your patch at,
and test it on all those.  Re-read what I wrote.  I never said the
patch had to be tested on all platforms/compilers targeted by the
library.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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