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Subject: Re: [boost] Removing old config macro and increasing compiler requirements.
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-04 07:31:00


On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, at 01:21 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> On 08/04/2013 01:10 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, at 01:00 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> >> I don't have specific information on what minimum compiler version would
> >> enable which interdependency culling, no. I only have the hard
> >> information that increasing the requirement allows cutting the
> >> config->core dependency, and the any->static_assert dependency.
> >>
> >> It is not unreasonable to think that the pattern ends there, so I don't
> >> think further evidence is necessary.
> > I don't buy that. Config is a special case, since almost everything
> > depends on it.
>
> Are you ignoring what I wrote about any->static_assert dependency which
> is no longer needed as a result of bumping the compiler requirement?

I don't think it matters. static_assert is a tiny dependency.


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