Re: [boost] Review request: Bumping borland, SunPro, mwerks and MPW compiler requirements

Subject: Re: [boost] Review request: Bumping borland, SunPro, mwerks and MPW compiler requirements
From: Stephen Kelly (steveire_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-26 17:09:51

On 09/26/2013 11:02 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> On 26 September 2013 21:47, Daniel James <daniel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> The Borland compiler versions aren't the same as the C++ Builder
>> versions, Version 6 of the compiler is a lot later. I had an email
>> (this morning) from someone who's still using 5.93. Later versions are
>> handled by the Codegear config file, which is why that error is never
>> triggered.
> I really should have posted a summary of the emails I received by now.
> There were 5 in total, none of them gave me permission to forward to
> the list. Text in brackets is my commentary.
>
> One said "Yes, please".

'Yes please' to what? Keeping Borland 5.93 working with trunk? Or some
earlier Borland version?

> One is still using codegear/borland c++ 5.93, which is c++ builder 2007.

That's interesting, but confusing.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2BBuilder#Version_history

says that the version released in 2007 was released by CodeGear. Any
idea what's going on there?

Thanks,

Steve.