Re: [boost] The future and present of Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] The future and present of Boost
From: Antony Polukhin (antoshkka_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-24 18:40:26

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 21:30 Niall Douglas via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> > But we can't just stop investing effort in C++03 maintenance. We have to
> > officially drop C++03 at the Boost level, meaning, refuse to compile
> > Boost with C++03 at all, or make it difficult, or at least make it
> > choose an intelligent default that is never C++03.
>
> As Beman suggested so many years ago now, it's long overdue for a
> separate Boost v2.x release which is shorn of the backwards
> compatibility and undermaintained libraries.
>
> I'd make it C++ 17 by default, too, as surveys suggest people are
> jumping straight from C++ 11 to C++ 17 and not stopping at C++ 14.
>
> People can keep around Boost 1.x with the existing libraries as long as
> people want it. Let's just break free of the ancient cruft already.
>
> And before anyone asks, it would be on each individual library
> maintainer to do the work to put their library into Boost 2.x.
>

I'm in. Let's do that.

But let's change the namespace to avoid conflicts with Boost1, in case of
some library would be included in both projects.

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