Re: [boost] Recommend dropping test coverage on msvc-7.1 and msvc-8.0

Subject: Re: [boost] Recommend dropping test coverage on msvc-7.1 and msvc-8.0
From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-14 15:52:14

On 14 October 2017 at 18:05, Edward Diener via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Microsoft has "promised" to fix their broken preprocessor so many times,
> without actually doing so, that one more "promise" means nothing.
>

Lighten up! Get a good BIB in SB, enjoy and forget about the past. MS is
not just bug-fixing, they are re-arranging the deck-chairs (C++17,
re-writing the PP and 1 -> 2-phase lookup a.o.), it's said to be done by
(they said before) mid 2018 (they never said stuff like that before, mind
you)...

degski
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