16 Oct
2017
16 Oct
'17
1:26 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
James E. King, III wrote:
Actually my intention was not to discuss this just for the format library
- but for all libraries. There shouldn't be a need to support msvc-7.1 by any library at stated it is past support and I don't think it's worth anybody spending time dealing with it in development or in test at this point.
The reason we have an msvc-7.1 tester in the matrix is that Ion Gaztañaga cares enough (or cared enough - don't how how strongly he feels about it now) to run it. Having msvc-7.1 tested does not necessarily create any obligation on part of library maintainers to support it; whoever wants to, can.
+1 --Beman