Re: [boost] Libraries and C++ compliance

Subject: Re: [boost] Libraries and C++ compliance
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-04-11 23:13:21

On 4/11/2017 6:58 PM, Gavin Lambert via Boost wrote:
> On 11/04/2017 21:54, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
>> On 04/11/17 02:24, Gavin Lambert via Boost wrote:
>>> There's an official blog post about it:
>>>
>>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/06/07/standards-version-switches-in-the-compiler/ 
>>>
>>>
>> Blog is not documentation. One should not be required to follow blogs or
>> other social media to know how to use a compiler.
> 
> Which is why the second link I posted was an official documentation link.

Finally they have their online docs and they just recently added 
downloadable local documentation. It "only" took them a month to have 
docs for their product. I am glad to be able to see the compiler switch 
docs for VC++17, which gives a good idea of the levels of C++ compliance 
which they support with VS2017.

But again I do not see the issue of libraries having to document which 
compilers and in which modes they support rather than which level of 
coompliance the library supports. It is then up to the end-user to 
understand the compiler(s) being used and to use the proper compiler 
switches for a given library. My OP was to get library creators to take 
seriously the effort to specify the C++ compliance level(s) of their 
library in the library docs.