Re: [Boost-users] Removing all support for Visual C++ 7.0, GCC 3.2 and other old compilers

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Removing all support for Visual C++ 7.0, GCC 3.2 and other old compilers
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-05 17:19:54

On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, at 11:56 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
> 
> Hmmm - take for example the serialization library.
> 
> Little by little over time, tweaks base on boost.config have been 
> accumulated
> so they are all over the place.  These tweaks depend on macros
> defined in boost config with something like "if compiler < borland 5.0"
> or
> something like that.  Would all these "old macros" be eliminated?  This
> of course would totally break compilation of the library on any platform.

No, of course not. But that's off topic here, the development list
thread would be the place to discuss implementation details. Which is
why I didn't say anything about them.