Re: [boost] A possible date for dropping c++03 support

Subject: Re: [boost] A possible date for dropping c++03 support
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-30 17:33:22

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On 08/30/18 20:05, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> >> > > - The default language level for b2 builds will be at least c++11
> >
> > That's going to be a bit complicated as we don't know in general what 
> > the default should be, but in any case C++11 is very rarely it. In fact 
> > using C++14 unconditionally will probably be better than trying to be 
> > clever.
>
> +1. If we're going to drop C++03, we might as well require C++14 as the 
> baseline.

Wait, that's not what I meant. :-) I meant that we should build with 
cxxstd=14 by default because that's most likely going to match what other 
code is built with, not that we should require C++14. :-)