Re: [boost] Removing old config macro and increasing compiler requirements.

Subject: Re: [boost] Removing old config macro and increasing compiler requirements.
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-29 09:37:34

On Jul 29, 2013, at 4:17 AM, Stephen Kelly <steveire_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've been working on the modularization effort from a CMake point of view,
> and from an 'actual modularization' point of view, looking at
> interdependencies:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.ryppl.devel/9/focus=26
> 
> I'd like to start on reducing interdependencies, and I'd like to start
> reasonably small, as no-one in the boost community knows me and see how it
> goes from there. I'm very active in CMake, Qt and KDE.
> 
> Currently, in the modularized boost repos, boost::config and boost::core
> depend on each other. I listed 3 ways of fixing this on the ryppl list:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.ryppl.devel/201
> 
> My preference is the removal of
> BOOST_NO_EXPLICIT_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ARGUMENTS, and requiring compilers to
> have the feature. That way boost/config/suffix.hpp will no longer need to
> include boost/{non_,}type.hpp.
> 
> My preference is increasing the compiler requirement, because that may open
> up more similar opportunities for reducing dependencies and
> interdependencies throughout boost.
> 
> Grepping indicates that that means increasing the compiler requirements to
> something like __DMC__ > 0x840, GCC > 3.2, BOOST_INTEL_CXX_VERSION > 500,
> VC++ > 7.0.

gcc 3.3 as a minimum seems ok to me.
I'm a bit less sure about cutting out VC++ 7 - but we don't seem to have any testers for it.
I don't have any opinion on the version bump for Digital Mars or Icc.

That macro appears to be used in Boost.Python, Boost.PropertyMap, Boost.CRC, Boost.Math and Boost.MPL, and maybe other libraries.
I assume you're volunteering to update them as well (and the Boost.config docs and tests, etc)?

-- Marshall

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