Re: [release] Boost 1.71.0 Beta 1

From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-07-25 15:54:35

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 5:11 AM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Michael Caisse wrote:
>
> > Please download the beta, give it a try, and report any problems you
> > encounter.
>
> FWIW, Stacktrace no longer compiles under msvc-9.0, because
>
> compile-c-c++
>
> bin.v2\libs\stacktrace\build\msvc-9.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\windbg.obj
> windbg.cpp
> .\boost/stacktrace/detail/frame_msvc.ipp(118) : error C2039: 'back' : is
> not
> a member of 'std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax>'
>         with
>         [
>             _Elem=char,
>             _Traits=std::char_traits<char>,
>             _Ax=std::allocator<char>
>         ]
> .\boost/stacktrace/detail/frame_msvc.ipp(118) : fatal error C1903: unable
> to
> recover from previous error(s); stopping compilation
>
> I see that Tom is no longer building msvc-9.0 binaries though, so this may
> not be a problem.
>

We also don't have anyone running msvc-9.0 testers in the matrix anymore,
so that is probably why it hasn't been noticed.

Last december there was a thread [1] about dropping support for older
compilers. The general consensus was that we'd focus around msvc-10.0+,
gcc-4.6+, clang-3.4+. However, if there are easy fixes that help older
compilers (like this!) there is no reason to not apply them.

Tom

[1] https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2018/12/244632.php