"Bronek Kozicki" <brok@rubikon.pl> wrote in message news:1iw8nsmc4skor.1t4umw7rdiz3i.dlg@40tude.net...
I would think that users of MSVC6, old Borland compilers or GCC 2.95 are "adoption blockers" and they possibly do not care much about new features in boost (apparently they also do not care much about decent implementation of C++ standard library). Thus hopefully they will not mind if we just ask them to use releases in 1.31.x branch. But it also means that we will need to support two branches for (at least) next two years. This might be cumbersome, but on the other hand it should simplify development in "current" branch.
An important thing to realize is that programmers are not always free to choose their compilers. I agree in theory that dropping support for old problem compilers is a good idea; unfortunately, in practice, I am stuck using MSVC6 for a while longer. That doesn't mean I don't care about new features in Boost; quite the opposite: I push for a new compiler whenever possible so that I can use features *already* in Boost that don't work well with MSVC6. Mike
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