Re: [boost] [config] Handle upcoming XP-target toolset of VC11

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] Handle upcoming XP-target toolset of VC11
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-09 12:09:23

> Microsoft are testing their update system for Visual Studio 2012 [1],
> which includes a v110_xp toolset [2] for "restoring" support for
> building software that may run on Windows XP.
>
> In essence, it uses a repurposed Windows 7 SDK with the VS 2012
> compiler, instead of the Windows 8 SDK used in the normal v110 toolset.
>
> What implications do you think this has for Boost.Config and all the
> things predicated on MSC_VER, as this decorrelates the compiler version
> from the Windows SDK it uses.

I don't see why that would have any effect on Boost.Config: anything that 
depends on the SDK version shouldn't be compiler dependent.

John.