Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
I can feel your pain but Boost.Test is probably the least suitable library to make any steps in this direction. At least for those parts that involve the boost regression testing. AFAICS we need to be able to run regression tests on VC6 for the foreseeable future.
Do we? I do not see any regression runs for this compiler for about a year now ( I think)
Just to clarify if I say vc6 I mean VC 6.0 SP5. We do have regression tests for 1.33.1 on this platform. We do not currently have them for HEAD.
There is certainly a growing feeling their time has come, but no definitive list yet. I have this feeling for several releases now. 7.1 may soon become depricated. I strongly disagree with this.
Not that I insist, but: why?
Because its successor is only available for roughly two month now.
Again I'd like to ask you to not make any changes that impair our ability to do regression testing on 2.95
Pre 3.0 gcc is the source of huge amount of clumsy workarounds. We should get away from it ASAP.
I do agree that phasing out 2.95.3 is the way to go. I just think that infrastructure like e.g. Boost.Test and Boost.Config should be the last to drop support. Thomas -- Thomas Witt witt@acm.org