18 Feb
2004
18 Feb
'04
5:27 p.m.
Russell Hind <rhind@mac.com> writes:
And I'm not going to try and force or even request every boost library to support bcc32 (many already don't) such as lambda which I would love to use.
The only way to stop the above happening is to force every current library to always support the compilers it supports now. That may severely hamper the development of the library which is a bad thing.
Right now many Boost libraries are supporting lots of compiler (even older broken ones) with no force at all. I'm not convinced there's anything we can do here as a matter of policy. Individual library authors need to decide for themselves when it's time to drop support for various compilers. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com