Re: Technical Excellence?

From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-02 08:05:43

On 02/04/2024 00:27, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Ivan Matek wrote:
>> As for other comments: as I have said this has been discussed 1000x, I did not
>> expect to change anybody's mind, and now I kind of feel bad for wasting
>> people time since these discussions rarely change anybody's mind, but at least
>> I think one nice thing is that I fully agree with Arno so there is at least some
>> benefit to this discussion :)
> What we need to do is to systematically transition Boost libraries to standard
> components. The first and necessary step for this was dropping C++03, and
> we finally achieved liftoff there; now we need to finish the job. (I've on my
> TODO list migrating CRC off of boost::array et al in 1.86, for instance.)
>
> This is going to happen, eventually. Sooner, if we get PRs.
>
This sounds like a good thing, though no small job: in one of my idler 
moments I wondered who was still using Boost.StaticAssert - well it 
turns out nearly everyone, including some newer libraries that I'd 
assumed were at least C++11 anyway.

John.