Re: Suggested policy for dropping C++03 support in Boost libraries

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-11-08 05:37:18

On 11/7/19 7:24 PM, James E. King III via Boost wrote:

> 
> This was already debated before.  No need to rehash it.  Maintainers are
> already empowered to drop C++03 support.  

Right. they've been empowered to do this for 20 years.  How does this 
change anything

> They can start by updating their
> readme and docs and stop running their C++03 CI jobs.

Is it being proposed that they should be required to do this?.  If not 
what are library maintainers expected to do differently?

Robert Ramey