On 19.05.2016 11:17, Niall Douglas wrote:
The C++ 14 only libraries contributed to date are clearly written first for C++ not Boost. They are the future we should be proactively encouraging into a new clean ground up redesigned fork of Boost, a Boost 2.0, instead of corralling them into legacy and outdated packaging, build, design, documentation and idioms out of some misguided desire for serving the legacy Boost usership before that of the wider C++ community.
What percentage of "the entire C++ community" do you think has access to a C++ 14 compiler anyway? I like to think I'm more up to date than the average C++ user. I'm running the latest version of Linux Mint, based on the next-to-latest version of Ubuntu. The gcc that comes with my operating system is version 4.8, which predates C++ 14. To use C++ 14, I would have to recompile gcc, which I have not yet managed to do for all of my target platforms. I'd love to switch to C++ 14, but right now it's just technically viable for me. -- Rainer Deyke (rainerd@eldwood.com)