On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:01 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> 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.
We never officially support, and hence don't mention in release notes, support for unreleased toolsets. Even if we work toward supporting such pre-releases.
That is about Boost.Build, which I assume is the first to be updated to support a new toolkit.
Yes, it's a basic requirement. I haven't checked current commits history of individual libraries. Status of VS2017 support in individual libraries may be at different stages.
http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html
Could anyone clarify any of these points: - Does Boost.Build in Boost 1.63.0 officially support VS2017?
No. As msvc-15 is not released yet.
- Is there any schedule to fully support VS2017 in Boost 1.64.0?
No. As msvc-15 is not released yet.
- 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?
Yes, and support for any toolset, even the really old ones, is always an incremental work in progress. See the results linked above. -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail