Re: [Boost-users] Are you stuck on an old Boost release due to adefective compiler?

From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-08 08:52:10

Nicola Musatti wrote:
> Hallo,
> I'm trying to gauge the number of Boost users that are actually using
> an older version of the libraries because they have to use a compiler
> that's not supported by more recent versions of the libraries they
> use.
>
> As for myself, I work on a project where Borland's BCB6 is used and
> we're stuck with Boost 1.31 mostly because more recent versions of
>  uBlas do not work with our compiler.

I'm happy to say that last month, I bit the bullet and moved our last 
remaining VC6.5(boost.1.30.2) product to vc7.1 & boost.1.33.1. This ended up 
being only a few hours work, primarily related to the changes in the 
iterators library. I ended up wishing I did this much sooner.

Jeff