Re: [boost] C++03 / C++11 compatibility question for compiled libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] C++03 / C++11 compatibility question for compiled libraries
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-18 13:29:36

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Glen Fernandes via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> Why not, where's the demand for C++03 support coming from?
>
> Users of Boost that care about C++03.
>
> Before I became a contributor to Boost, and before I became a Boost
> library author, I was a user of Boost at Microsoft. Even as late as
> 2014 when I left the company, those projects depended on Boost for
> C++03 support. (In fact, at least one of the projects only dropped
> C++03 support as late as 2016).

It's 2018 now..
Where did the C++03 support requirement come from though, an old compiler?
Even VS 2010 knows some C++11 stuff.

-- 
Olaf