Re: [Boost-testing] vc6/7 for 1.34?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-12 12:57:29

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:59:42 -0500, David Abrahams wrote
> Is anyone planning to start running tests on these compilers?  If not
> we will have effectively dropped support for them for 1.34.  Since I
> am opposed to dropping support without giving one release worth of
> warning, I am prepared to start running the tests if necessary.  I'd
> like to have the remove_xxx function hacks put in if possible,
> *before* support gets dropped.  Maybe, to cover people that have to
> target oddball embedded processors running WinCE and can't pay to 
> have G++ customized, we ought to get the vc6-supporting parts of 
> Boost running as well as possible before we drop support.  That 
> would imply one more release cycle to take advantage of remove_xxx 
> working before that happens.

I'm dropping support in this release for date-time -- so that means the
libraries NOT supporting these will include: spirt, bgl, date-time, and
probably a few more.

Jeff