Re: [boost] Permanently retire VC++ 6?

From: Martin Slater (mslater_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-06 08:36:55

> I am against dropping VC 6 regression tests in general because I want to see 
> what works on it, either for not introducing a regression, or for ensuring 
> compatibility where it's reasonably easy to do so.

Just to be sure, I'm quite happy to keep running the regression tests 
for vc6 for as long as people would like it, personally I do not use vc6 
anymore but since I was still needing to develop with until last year I 
fully sympathise with people who do need it. I'm also very grateful I 
don't have to deal with it anymore ;) I think it should still be a per 
library maintainer decision, if they have put effort into supporting old 
compilers and wish it to stay as the library is very stable and complete 
(like boost.bind) then thats up to them. Obviously if they require a 
boost library that drops support for old compilers then it may not be 
their choice.

Martin

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