[boost] A possible date for dropping c++03 support

-----Original Message----- From: Boost On Behalf Of Glen Fernandes via Boost Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:51 PM

On Tuesday, August 28, 2018, degski wrote:

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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.

Important data point thank you! I started a separate thread with a "survey" (well, 6 yes/no questions), if you have the time, could you please also answer there?

Weird to a Boost user, sure. Not very weird to those Boost library authors that are contacted by such users.

As I've even been mentioned before, even certain projects at Microsoft (some that I actually worked on), still update Boost while supporting older VC compiler versions.

Maybe I'm mixing this up but I vaguely remember a post some time ago about this topic (could be that it was actually on reddit thought). In any case, is this information still current? The post I have in mind mentioned that that information was from "a few years ago" (again, I might completely misremember or mixing it up). Best Mike