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: Joel Falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-06 07:14:07

On 05/08/2013 21:58, Daniel James wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> There has been some discussion on the development list about dropping
> all support for old C++ compilers. This will allow us to remove a lot of
> workarounds and simplify the code but before doing so it's a good idea
> to find out if anyone is still using them. Using boost with these
> compilers will cause a compile error in the config library (you can work
> round that using a custom configuration, but it's unlikely you'll be
> able to get much to work).

Good :)

> The currently proposed versions for removing
> support are:
>
>      Digital Mars 8.40 and earlier
>      Visual C++ 7.0 and earlier
>      GCC 3.2 and earlier
>      Intel C++ 5.0 and earlier
>

Intel is now 12 and gcc is 4.x, coudln't we reach a bit further on those 
? ICC before 8 is rather obnoxious to work with and so is gcc pre 4.x