on Tue Aug 06 2013, Daniel James
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, at 01:33 PM, Kerry, Richard wrote:
Whatever is to be done I would say it is important that it is documented which version is the last to support any particular compiler. I'm still dependant on Visual Studio 6 and I recall not finding it clearly stated which was the last version of Boost to support it.
That's a very good point. Visual Studio 6 was quite badly handled. I believe at some point config introduced some incompatible code. No one noticed for a couple of versions, so it isn't exactly clear when it happened. It would have been better if we'd had a better cut off point - and maybe even backported fixes to that version for people who use the compiler.
There never was an official version of Boost-as-a-whole that supported VC6 (or any other compiler). Some libraries never supported that compiler. Others did. Eventually, volunteer testers for that platform disappeared and we stopped testing Boost with it altogether. -- Dave Abrahams