Re: [boost] Removing old config macro and increasing compiler requirements.

Subject: Re: [boost] Removing old config macro and increasing compiler requirements.
From: Stephen Kelly (steveire_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-04 06:27:54

On 08/04/2013 12:00 PM, Bo Persson wrote:
> Daniel James skrev 2013-08-04 10:57:
>> On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, at 10:22 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>>>
>>> What do you think about increasing the compiler requirement much more,
>>> as I wrote in another mail?
>>
>> I'd say no, unless you've got a very good reason. Compiler support
>> should be an individual library maintainers decision.
>>
>
> Should it? If one library can be dependent on 35 others (boost::any?)
> it sure seems like an agreed upon base line could be useful.

Note that the libraries are all in an interdependent mesh. So attempting
to use any one of them (not just the 'any' one of them :) ) results in
requiring all of them.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.ryppl.devel/9/focus=26

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.ryppl.devel/201

Thanks,

Steve.