Re: [boost] Windows XP support survey

Subject: Re: [boost] Windows XP support survey
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-07 19:55:38

On 7/05/2015 21:56, Niall Douglas wrote:
> Incidentally, feelings on XP support seem very muted this time round,
> with everyone agreeing we should drop it after the next Boost
> release. I admit surprise on the consensus.

For what it's worth, as a Boost consumer I still care about Boost 
working on XP -- however for the application that I need to still work 
on XP, I'm ok with requiring that it use a specific Boost version and no 
later (it's already using one several versions behind the current release).

I'm in favour of Boost changing its default _WIN32_WINNT setting to 
Vista/Win7, although *if possible* it would be nice if the application 
author could still choose to set it back to XP and have most of Boost 
still work.