Re: [boost] [config] Configuring for C++14 and later library features.

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] Configuring for C++14 and later library features.
From: Stephen Kelly (hello_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-04-24 14:50:40

John Maddock wrote:
> Further, if we
> get requests for more such feature-detection macros, we would end up
> including the whole std lib (see
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3745#recs.cpp14).

Heh, almost exactly a year ago:

 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.features/17/match=Boost

> Boost.Config does record some library features, and may have to include
> many headers in order to access the macros, which might be undesirable.

> This doesn't look acceptable to me, but what to do? 

Bring it up on isocpp.features.

Thanks,

Steve.