Re: [boost] [GCC 2.95.3] Boost regression notification (2005-10-28 [HEAD])

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-29 11:24:53

Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Oct 28, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> A lot of these failures are for gcc-2.95.3-linux. Do we care enough  
>> about
>> 2.95.3 nowadays to consider it a release platform?
>
> I vageuely remember trying to kill GCC 2.95.3 support at one point,  
> but was convinced otherwise. We could just mark it as unusable on new  
> libraries/tests that support it but retain backward compatibility on  
                      ^
                      don't??

> those libraries that do.

If not "don't," how will we know we're retaining backward
compatibility?

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