Re: [gil] Phasing out support C++11 and switching to C++17

From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-10-27 12:35:49

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 13:21, Peter Dimov via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>
> > We are also considering, with Samuel, a less revolutionary approach:
> > deprecate specific compiler/version in case it does not support certain
> > C++11 features properly or suffers from bugs.
> > For example, we may advertise dropping GCC 5 support due to issues similar
> > to this https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pull/526
>
> If you drop GCC 5, you can make the minimum requirement C++14, as it's the
> default for GCC 6 and newer. (C++17 is default for GCC 11.)

Sounds fine too. I'll pass it to Samuel. Thanks.

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