Re: [boost] Patches for unversioned MSVC checks

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-15 04:51:03

From: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
> I've taken the liberty of committing fixes for *some* of boost's
BOOST_MSVC
> checks which weren't checking the version number. I took a somewhat
> conservative route, which also means it's somewhat ham-fisted -- in many
> cases the original test was written with MSVC6 in mind, and I just assumed
> that the same workaround would be needed for MSVC7 but not for later
> compilers. Hopefully, the enclosed list will be enough to prompt authors
> and maintainers to look over the changes and tune them appropriately.

bind/placeholders.hpp doesn't need the patch. It will hopefully still work
with the patch, but I'm not 100% sure.