Re: [Boost-users] Users! Who'd like to wave goodbye to #ifdef BOOST_MSVC6_* workarounds?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Users! Who'd like to wave goodbye to #ifdef BOOST_MSVC6_* workarounds?
From: Diederick C. Niehorster (dcnieho_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-02 04:45:18

+1 to dropping VC6 support

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 13:25, Marsh Ray <marsh_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> If the code doesn't get a little spring cleaning once in a while, the dead
> wood will just builds up more and more over time. A codebase as big as Boost
> could probably have a ongoing minor project for dusting and vacuuming. Heck,
> maybe there's some magic preprocessor that can do much of it automatically.

As cleaning would be done anyway, is there support for other very old
compilers or versions of compilers that might be dropped?

Best,
Dee