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: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-16 17:35:18

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> This doesn't allow you to compare versions with greater-than, it's just a
> match, but you could still enumerate whatever you want excluded, and is
> probably the easiest way to address the msvc-7.1 issue.

This would require a lot of libs that don't care about msvc-7.1 to do
something..
Wouldn't it be simpler to make msvc-7.1 (and 8 and 9) be opt-in
instead of opt-out?

-- 
Olaf