On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:25:26 +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote
Granted, they've dropped support for older, broken compilers, so someone will still be getting hurt by this.
Right. OTOH, I start to wonder if BGL should drop support for old compilers as well. (borland and vc6 are marked unusable already). There seem to be a lot of workaround inside BGL which means even reading the code hard.
More and more I've come to believe that the time has come to start ignoring these old compilers boost-wide. I've taken the approach of ignoring them for any new features I add -- as long as things that worked in the last release continue to work. Even that, in my experience, becomes a pain rather quickly -- I'm guessing at least 1/3 of our time has gone into backward compatibility while addind wide char i/o support and such... Jeff