On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 13:50, Glen Fernandes
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.
I'll take your word for it, weird people everywhere. Well MS never stops surprising us, not so long ago [like this year] they did an update of, cannot remember exactly, of paint.exe maybe (or something similar). They actually did an edit (with a hex-editor) of this binary (it fixed the problem) and sent it out as an update (which it was), but they must have either lost the source code, or had no way of compiling the code. degski -- *“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" - Herbert Stein* *“No, it isn’t truth. Truth isn’t truth" - Rudolph W. L. Giuliani*