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

Subject: Re: [boost] Removing old config macro and increasing compilerrequirements.
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-04 08:40:13

On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, at 02:09 PM, John Maddock wrote:
> > Correct. But they are in the boost::core library along with other files
> > which do have dependencies. Therefore as boost::config depends on
> > boost::core for only those two files, boost::config gets all the
> > dependencies of boost::core transitively. I'm actually even a bit
> > confused by what you wrote because I thought this would be very obvious.
> 
> Sorry, but there is no Boost core library other than what you have chosen
> to 
> define - one could just as easily place those two files as part of 
> Boost.Config and break the dependency that way.  Just saying...

Do you have an opinion on the original change? The only contentious part
of it seems to be dropping Visual C++ 7.0.