Re: [boost] Windows XP support survey

Subject: Re: [boost] Windows XP support survey
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-07 04:34:25

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 6 May 2015 at 15:58, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
>> > However Visual Studio 2012
>> > cannot run on XP, nor by default can produce binaries which execute
>> > on XP, so testing and developing for XP compatibility is going to
>> > become increasingly difficult.
>>
>> As far as I know this is false. 2013 and 2015 have _xp toolsets that
>> allow building for XP..
>
> You may have missed my qualifier "nor by default".

No I didn't. What does it mean though?
A 'default' VS2013 install does have the _xp toolset and thus can
build for XP if the user wants.

Did you mean the _xp toolset isn't the default toolset?

-- 
Olaf