Re: [boost] Raising minimum target Windows version

Andrey Semashev wrote:

Hi,

I'm considering raising minimum target Windows version for my libraries to at least Windows 7. This means dropping workarounds for missing WinAPI functions that are present (but, for a very long time now, untested) for Windows XP. ... Comments? Objections? Counter-proposals? I'm especially interested in comments regarding Windows 7 as the new baseline - am I being too conservative?

FWIW, people are still using Boost in $current_year to target Windows XP. Yes, this surprised me as well. https://github.com/boostorg/system/issues/113 https://github.com/boostorg/system/issues/111 https://github.com/boostorg/system/issues/110 Note that 113 is specifically about building Filesystem.