Re: [boost] Master branch is now open for bug fixes

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024, at 5:23 PM, Дмитрий Архипов via Boost wrote:

пн, 29 июл. 2024 г. в 23:50, Marshall Clow :

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Do you still have many users using gcc4?

To be honest, I have no idea. I'm deprecating GCC 4, because I plan to use Charconv, and it requires GCC 5+. And I'm doing it now, because CentOS 7 (which used GCC 4.8) just went EOL .

I know some people are stuck in 2015. Just the other day: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78790362/85371 ; I don't see that as an argument to not move on though; I think the policies that cause these conservative practices are usually misguided. Just my $0.02