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 07:45:44

On 08/04/2013 01:31 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, at 01:21 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> On 08/04/2013 01:10 PM, Daniel James wrote:
>>> On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, at 01:00 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>>>> I don't have specific information on what minimum compiler version would
>>>> enable which interdependency culling, no. I only have the hard
>>>> information that increasing the requirement allows cutting the
>>>> config->core dependency, and the any->static_assert dependency.
>>>>
>>>> It is not unreasonable to think that the pattern ends there, so I don't
>>>> think further evidence is necessary.
>>> I don't buy that. Config is a special case, since almost everything
>>> depends on it.
>> Are you ignoring what I wrote about any->static_assert dependency which
>> is no longer needed as a result of bumping the compiler requirement?
> I don't think it matters. static_assert is a tiny dependency.

You miss the point entirely, repeatedly and insistently :).

Hopefully someone else will react to the request to commit the patches.

Thanks,

Steve.