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Subject: Re: [boost] 1.68 Getting Started links to 1.67
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-28 13:32:35


On 08/28/18 16:27, Mateusz Loskot via Boost wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 15:12, Andrey Semashev via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 08/28/18 15:50, Mateusz Loskot via Boost wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 14:44, Andrey Semashev via Boost
>>> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 08/28/18 13:18, degski wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 13:14, Andrey Semashev via Boost
>>>>> <boost_at_[hidden] <mailto:boost_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> AFAIK, vcpkg is MSVC-specific. Not all Windows users use MSVC.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you fact-check that assertion?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, Visual Studio is listed as a prerequisite here:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg
>>>
>>> * Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (on Windows)
>>>
>>> The "On Windows" applies to both listed versions of VS, no just 2015 ;-)
>>
>> Yes, so? Does this contradict what I said?
>
> It invalidates "vcpkg is MSVC-specific", at least.

In what way? Unless the readme is wrong, MSVC is required on Windows.


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