On 10/27/2020 8:20 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
Mateusz Loskot wrote:
We are also considering, with Samuel, a less revolutionary approach: deprecate specific compiler/version in case it does not support certain C++11 features properly or suffers from bugs. For example, we may advertise dropping GCC 5 support due to issues similar to this https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pull/526
If you drop GCC 5, you can make the minimum requirement C++14, as it's the default for GCC 6 and newer. (C++17 is default for GCC 11.)
I do not think that is a good argument for the minimum level of C++ a library decides to support. Programmers can always decide, if they wish, not to use the default level of a compiler. I do however see little wrong with dropping support for very old compiler releases when those releases do not implement correctly the minimum level of the C++ standard which a library targets.