Re: [boost] Boost.test failures in develop

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.test failures in develop
From: Barend Gehrels (barend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-01 17:55:41

Op 1-10-2015 om 23:02 schreef Gennadiy Rozental:
> Adam Wulkiewicz <adam.wulkiewicz <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>>> Aparna Kumta <aparna.kumta <at> oracle.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> It seems that the code contains rvalue reference and hence the compiler
>>>> is  not able to build it in C++03 mode.
>>> Why do you want to use C++03 mode?
>> Test is failing from various reasons with any compiler without C++11
>> support. See e.g.:
>> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/geometry.html
> It is almost 2016. How much longer do we plan to test against c++03? I'm
> with Bjarne here: it is time to move to c++11 enabled world - we all going
> to be better for it.

You cannot just drop (if I'm correct it is dropped without even any 
notice) c++03 from your Boost.Test library which is used by many 
libraries which indeed stilll do support c++03. It is still widely used 
and even though it is indeed time to change, that will still take much time.

>
> I'll see if anything obvious can be fixed.

Good, thanks!

Regards, Barend