On 14 October 2017 at 14:41, James E. King, III via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
... but it looks like we should consider dropping msvc-7.1 and msvc-8.0. These are very old compilers for Windows development.
Although I understand my opinion is not even worth 2 Cents and feel like Cato The Elder must have felt, I'll put them [2 Cents] in anyway. I think Boost should only support MSVC-versions, that are supported by Microsoft. Unsupported versions have un-supported c-run-time-libraries and are hencefort a danger for the planet. It would also start to simplify things a bit (probably a lot) going forward as we are expecting MSVC to be fully compliant (including the preprocessor (good news Edward!)) bar bugs, somewhere in the first half of 2018. Just to conclude: "Carthago delenda est". degski -- "*Ihre sogenannte Religion wirkt bloß wie ein Opiat reizend, betäubend, Schmerzen aus Schwäche stillend.*" - Novalis 1798