On 10/16/2015 8:22 AM, Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
On 16/10/2015 10:43, Andrey Semashev wrote:
On 16.10.2015 11:18, Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
Hi,
The last compiler update two years ago in Boost 1.55 left MSVC-7.1 and GCC 3.3 as two of the oldest supported compilers:
That's about Boost.Config supporting macros from these compilers up. It doesn't mean that all libraries support these compilers.
Right. I never said that, it's up to each library which compilers are supported. In any case, Config changes break nearly all libraries.
FWIW, I think these ancient compilers are long beyond saving. We have not been testing them for years, and from the test matrix it is clear that MSVC-7.1 has been broken terribly but noone complained. Noone seems to care about it anymore.
It's an option. Qt only supports MSVC10/GCC 4.4 and above. However latest POCO (1.6.1) still supports MSVC-7.1, WxWidgets supports MSVC8.
I don't think MSVC is the main problem now. We have much more work with compilers like old DMD, Oracle, & Borland which as less conformant than MSVC-7.1
No one has suggested adding support for DMD or Borland in some library where it did not exist before, as you have done for VC++7.1. As for Oracle the Sun compiler 12.4 is fairly recent and even 12.2 and 12.3 were not that long ago. The VC++7.1 compiler is from 2003, some 12 years ago, and Microsoft has released 6 VC++ compiler updates since then.
In any case, if this triggers a discussion about new minimum requirements for Boost.Config, I'd happy to test other newer platforms.