Re: [boost] [test] VC6.5 no longer supported?

From: Martin Bonner (martin.bonner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-06 09:42:00

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Subject: Re: [boost] [test] VC6.5 no longer supported?

> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> 
>> Starting release 1.34 Boost.Test *officially* stop supporting VC 6.5,
>> GCC2.95 and old Borland. Unofficially Boost.Test is required to make
>> sure that none of the test that are included in Boost regression
>> testing are not failing due to failure in Boost.Test. If regression
>> testing is dropped for any of above compilers it means that
>> Boost.Test is not bound by any requirements anymore. 
>> 
>> 
> It sounds like I and many other people are going to have to stop using
> boost 
No you're not.  Boost 1.33.1 will not stop working.

> as many of us are still tied to this compiler whether we like it
> or not. We do not all have a choice as to what compiler we can use. We
> must make do with what we have.

You're just not going to be able to use the latest version of boost.  

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