On Tuesday, August 28, 2018, degski wrote:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 11:59, Olaf van der Spek via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
AFAIK compilers have improved a lot so using old compilers seems a bit weird.
The cross-section of people that want to use the latest Boost with the oldest working compiler cannot be enormous. But that seems to be the group (is there more than 1 user like that?) we are worried about here. Indeed, weird.
It is not enormous but it is big enough that as a Boost maintainer I still want to support them. Weird to a Boost user, sure. Not very weird to those Boost library authors that are contacted by such users. As I've even been mentioned before, even certain projects at Microsoft (some that I actually worked on), still update Boost while supporting older VC compiler versions. Glen