Re: [boost] [parameter] Go C++11 and above only, or keep C++03 support?

Subject: Re: [boost] [parameter] Go C++11 and above only, or keep C++03 support?
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-03 15:58:52

On 11/3/2018 10:47 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Andrey Semashev wrote:
> 
>> So I don't quite understand what were the recent discussions about 
>> "dropping C++03" about.
> 
> It appears that not many do.
> 
> In short, the point is that much of the outside world thinks of Boost as 
> a single thing. Our perspective as library maintainers is that libraries 
> are independent, but that's not how others view them.
> 
> To give you a specific example, if Parameter drops C++03 support, `b2 
> install` will fail on all compilers where C++03 is default because Log 
> will fail to build. This is spelled "Boost 1.70 fails to build".

I assume that the "dropping C++03 support" was also about building Boost 
for C++11 on up.