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 07:44:24

On 06/08/2013 13:42, Matthieu Brucher wrote:
>> 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
>
> Even 13 for Intel!

Oops of course !

> We stopped using Intel 9.1 a long time ago (4 years now), perhaps
> everything below 10 could be dropped.

10 is maybe a bit optimistic. I remember people using the 9 inside MSVC6 
in repalcement of cl.exe itself. Well, it's actually maybe a sign it 
should go also.