Re: Some compilation problems with latest cvs

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Carl Ollivier-Gooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On 10-Oct-99 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| 
| [Stuff about the joys of using clean ANSI C++ constructs omitted...]
| 
| I understand what you're saying, Lars, and at one level I agree.  But on
| the other hand, if all of your spare-time work doesn't get used by more
| than a handful of people, won't the fun kind of go out of it at some point?

Yes this is true...but I really do not believe this to be the case.
Close to conformant compilers exists for all major opertating systems,
and AFAIK there are much work going on to make support even better.

As to our LyX' main "users os": Linux, the compiler is getting there
fairly quick. Gcc 2.95 supports close to everything in the standard
(except "export"), but has still some problems with the Standard
Library, but that is beeing worked hard on.

Tell an OS vendor that "your C++ compiler is bad/old/antiquated"
enough times and I bet that the vendor will provide a new one fairly
soon.

And who can push the compiler/os vendors to produce compilers that
conform to the ANSI C++ standard except developers?

        Lgb