On 11/7/19 21:37, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
On 11/7/19 7:24 PM, James E. King III via Boost wrote:
This was already debated before. No need to rehash it. Maintainers are already empowered to drop C++03 support.
Right. they've been empowered to do this for 20 years. How does this change anything
It would seem that you are not the audience. Some authors apparently feel conflict in dropping C++03 support. A clearly documented policy of how to do this provides no harm and may cause authors/maintainers to deprecate old compiler support.
They can start by updating their readme and docs and stop running their C++03 CI jobs.
Is it being proposed that they should be required to do this?. If not what are library maintainers expected to do differently?
The proposal does not say this. The proposal provides the minimum steps that should be taken when a library maintainer is going to deprecate C++03 support. It seems very reasonable to have a written policy. I fully understand that some maintainers will feel no additional power from such a declaration; however, it does allow a uniform process to be pointed to. michael -- Michael Caisse Ciere Consulting ciere.com