Re: [boost] [Removing support for old compilers]

10 Jan 2014


      On 10 January 2014 10:26, Jonathan Wakely  wrote:
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On 10 January 2014 09:55, Daniel James  wrote:
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On 10 January 2014 09:12, Jonathan Wakely  wrote:
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On 10 January 2014 03:25, Adder wrote:
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Why should we draw *artificial* lines in a centralized manner ? And on
what basis do we draw those lines ?
On the basis that noone is testing old compilers so noone even knows
if the workarounds inside #if blocks work.
But people are testing with old compilers, including the person you
replied to.
But are they submitting test results so the maintainers can see them?
They submit bug reports. Which is not ideal, but is often good enough.
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Also, don't underestimate stability, even if we don't know
something works, there's a good chance it will for stable code.
But if it's entirely stable code
It's not entirely stable code.
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if there are no updates
There are updates.