Re: [boost] The Lonely Song of the MPL Maintainer -- or Boost support for antediluvian compiler and the future supprot of C++11

Subject: Re: [boost] The Lonely Song of the MPL Maintainer -- or Boost support for antediluvian compiler and the future supprot of C++11
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-14 08:09:50

On 8/14/2011 2:49 AM, Joel falcou wrote:
> On 14/08/11 00:31, Edward Diener wrote:
>> The problem is simply that very few compilers really support the vast
>> majority of C++11 features at this moment. So while it should certainly
>> be a goal to support C++11 any library which is based on it will find
>> very few compilers for awhile.
>
> 10 years ago, C++03 was not that supported by many compilers. Boost
> effort to push the boundaries forced the compiler vendor to adapt adn
> support more stuff. I think Boost can do the same with C++11: forcing
> vendors to actually care. I really don't want C++11 go the C99 way
> because nobody used it. It's a vicious circle : you don't use C++11
> cause vendor don't support much so vendor don't add more support cause
> nobody use it.

I agree with you but any Boost library still has to support C++03 for a 
good while until compiler vendors catch up with the C++11 standard.