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: 2013-08-06 08:09:33

On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, at 01:45 PM, Joel Falcou wrote:
> 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 ?

My mistake, I thought there was a mingw 3.4 tester last year, but
checking the release notes it was actually for linux. FWIW I did have a
3.4 bug report about a year ago.