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. Appreciatively, Richard. -----Original Message-----
Hello all,
There has been some discussion on the development list about dropping all support for old C++ compilers. This will allow us to remove a lot of workarounds and simplify the code but before doing so it's a good idea to find out if anyone is still using them. Using boost with these compilers will cause a compile error in the config library (you can work round that using a custom configuration, but it's unlikely you'll be able to get much to work).
The currently proposed versions for removing support are:
Digital Mars 8.40 and earlier Visual C++ 7.0 and earlier GCC 3.2 and earlier Intel C++ 5.0 and earlier