On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Glen Fernandes via Boost
On Tuesday, August 28, 2018, degski wrote:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 11:59, Olaf van der Spek via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
AFAIK compilers have improved a lot so using old compilers seems a bit weird.
The cross-section of people that want to use the latest Boost with the oldest working compiler cannot be enormous. But that seems to be the group (is there more than 1 user like that?) we are worried about here. Indeed, weird.
It is not enormous but it is big enough that as a Boost maintainer I still want to support them.
Weird to a Boost user, sure. Not very weird to those Boost library authors that are contacted by such users.
Part of the problem is that there's no data / visibility on this. Who's using what compilers? When do they plan to move forward? And what costs do others incur for (some of) Boost having to keep supporting this too?
What will change if we (Boost) make that announcement tomorrow? It's still up to the library maintainer.
Is it? If one of your dependencies requires C++11... -- Olaf