Re: Boost Libraries and Dropping C++ Language Support

From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-02-23 14:27:55

On 22/02/2023 23:10, Glen Fernandes via Boost wrote:
> *Boost library authors and maintainers are free to drop support for old C++
> standards in their libraries, at any time. *
> This includes libraries that other Boost libraries depend on. It even
> includes core libraries like Boost.Core or Boost.Static_Assert.

To ensure I'm understanding correctly, this means that a core library 
everybody else depends upon could declare it is dropping support for C++ 
17 as that is old, and thereafter all dependent libraries by definition 
would require C++ 20 as a minimum?

Niall