On 14 February 2017 at 13:43, Edward Diener via Boost
On 2/14/2017 4:01 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost wrote:
In the mid of 2016, PR "Add support for Visual Studio 15" [1] was merged into develop and eventually into master branch. Although the patch was released in Boost 1.63.0, the release notes [2] are silent about that update. That is about Boost.Build, which I assume is the first to be updated to support a new toolkit.
I haven't checked current commits history of individual libraries. Status of VS2017 support in individual libraries may be at different stages.
Could anyone clarify any of these points: - Does Boost.Build in Boost 1.63.0 officially support VS2017? - Is there any schedule to fully support VS2017 in Boost 1.64.0? - Or, is that left at discretion of maintainers of individual libraries and VS2017 support might be reached gradually over several releases instead of in a single shot?
Support for a new compiler/version in Boost usually means two things: support in Boost Build and support in Boost Config. So asking whether Boost supports a particular new compiler/version implementation really means asking if Boost Build and Boost Config support that compiler/version.
Right. And, since there has been activity regarding Visual Studio 2017 (initially referred by Microsoft to as Visual Studio "15") in both, Build [1] and Config [2], those questions are still valid: has the support been completed or is that work in progress? Why Boost 1.63.0 release notes are silent about [1]? [1] https://github.com/boostorg/build/pull/132 [2] https://github.com/boostorg/config/pull/110 Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net