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 07:45:15

On 06/08/2013 13:35, Daniel James wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, at 01:14 PM, Joel Falcou 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
>
> Possibly, that's why I mentioned that we might remove support from some
> later versions as well. I don't really know anything about old versions
> of Intel, but I would be surprised if anyone is using a version earlier
> than 8. I think there might still be a few Visual C++ 7.1 users and gcc
> 3.4 users (using mingw?).

Visual 7 and gcc 3.4 soudns reasonable. Isn't Mingw now uptodate to 4.6 
or 7 ?

> At least there was last year, maybe they'll
> have managed to upgrade by now. Rather than removing support for those
> compilers immediately, it might be better to go through some kind of
> deprecation process (e.g. warnings when compiling, mentions in release
> notes).

Definitively.