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: michi7x7 (mailing-lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-04 09:01:46

> Is there a 'do nothing' option here? Ie., leave the codebase unchanged 
> but no longer
> declare MSVC6 support, and so no longer require authors to support it?
>
Hi,

Yeah, that's exactly what IMO most of us "+1" here are saying.
There is no need to remove this hacky code, as it will bisabled by 
Preprocessor, but future versions don't need to support those old 
compilers, which makes writing it a lot easier.

If the support is dropped, those - then deprecated - parts of code might 
be deleted from version to version, just due to rewriting and improving...

Regards,

michi7x7