Re: [boost] Review request: Bumping borland, SunPro, mwerks and MPW compiler requirements

On 26 September 2013 22:09, Stephen Kelly wrote:

On 09/26/2013 11:02 PM, Daniel James wrote:

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The Borland compiler versions aren't the same as the C++ Builder versions, Version 6 of the compiler is a lot later. I had an email (this morning) from someone who's still using 5.93. Later versions are handled by the Codegear config file, which is why that error is never triggered. I really should have posted a summary of the emails I received by now. There were 5 in total, none of them gave me permission to forward to

On 26 September 2013 21:47, Daniel James wrote: the list. Text in brackets is my commentary.

One said "Yes, please".

'Yes please' to what? Keeping Borland 5.93 working with trunk? Or some earlier Borland version?

To removing support for old compilers, this was in response to my original email (from when I posted it to the site).

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One is still using codegear/borland c++ 5.93, which is c++ builder 2007.

That's interesting, but confusing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2BBuilder#Version_history

says that the version released in 2007 was released by CodeGear. Any idea what's going on there?

It was released by codegear. I said in my original email "Borland 5.x", so they were just making sure I'd realise that included some codegear versions (which I actually didn't know when I wrote the email). A lot of people continued to call the compiler borland c++ for some time after codegear took over - I think the executable was still called 'bcc', and boost build still uses the borland toolset.