AlisdairM wrote:
It has been agreed that several platforms will be deprecated in this version of Boost. To support that I have added a warning to the Borland config to alert anyone using old versions of this platform that it is being deprecated and this is the last compatible release.
What I notice is the warning gets annoying pretty quickly.
While I think deprecation announcement is useful in general, current practice possibly is too restricting. What I would rather like too see is a library component specific deprecation. Why should e.g. support for threading lib for an old compiler where it was known good be deprecated? In my opinion the respective library maintainer should be in charge of warning the user that the library is evolving into a direction where support of a specific compiler will be dropped in a future release. Doing this at a global scope does not allow this. What do you think? Roland