On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, at 01:14 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
On 08/04/2013 01:08 PM, Daniel James wrote:
So all the dependents pulled in by a modularization system do not affect the compiler requirements at all.
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying here.
This was all in response to Bo Persson's post:
Should it? If one library can be dependent on 35 others (boost::any?) it sure seems like an agreed upon base line could be useful.
As I understood it the point was that because boost::any depends on 35 libraries, a common base line is required for all 35 libraries. But many of these libraries don't actually affect boost::any, so I don't the point holds - i.e. unordered could require gcc 4.5, but boost::any would continue to work with gcc 4.4. This is a separate issue to how compiler requirements affect modularization.