On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Ion Gaztañaga
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:
http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_55_0.html
I have no access to GCC 3.3 but managed to get a Mingw-based GCC 3.4.
I will run regressions for for both mingw-GCC-3.4 and msvc-7.1 in master and develop branches in case anyone is interested. I plan to maintain support for them in Move, Intrusive, Container and Interprocess until we reach consensus on a new compiler update.
Really old compilers like GCC 3.4 and MSVC 7.1 are a terrible distraction at a time when Boost and the rest of the C++ community is working so hard to to upgrade to C++11/14. I don't follow GCC and Clang releases closely enough to have an opinion on them, but for MSVC with my own libraries I'm only supporting 10/11/12/14. --Beman