1 Dec
2020
1 Dec
'20
8:12 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020, 19:14 Peter Dimov via Boost
Jeff Garland wrote:
Why not just alternate releases -- so we'd have a 20 release and then a 17 release, etc?
I have no idea how that's supposed to work.
If we did pull this off, one interesting problem that would be induced is what various linux distros ship with...
Linux distros ship Boost built with the default gcc, with the default C++ standard. g++ defaults to C++03 before g++-6, to C++14 before g++-11. A C++17 Boost will be unshippable for a while. C++14 is kind of acceptable today.
GCC moves to c++17 by default https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=0801f419440c14f6772b28f763... AFAIK Clang plans the same move