Jody Hagins wrote:
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:29:43 -0500 Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor@gmail.com> wrote:
We definitely need to know what's happening here. If Boost.Test is going to drop VC6 support, that's fine, but we need to know sooner rather than later. I have several libraries that will need to move to
another testing infrastructure if Boost.Test drops support for older compilers.
I've been advocating for dropping ancient compilers for a while. However, I think we should NOT just drop a compiler without notification for at least one release cycle.
If we are sure we want to drop a compiler, decide on it now and deprecate it for 1.34, then you can drop it in a subsequent release.
Please do not drop msvc6sp5 yet. I need it still. Upgrading my compiler is not an option at this time as I have applications I need to continue supporting which would break with visual studio.net and cause me a lot of grief and headaches not to mention lots of work.