Re: Tagging the minimum C++ standard level for Boost libs

From: Alexander Grund (alexander.grund_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-12-16 07:51:29

Am 15.12.20 um 18:12 schrieb Edward Diener via Boost:
> Obviously we can also add "cxxstd": "03" for the many Boost libraries 
> which can still be used at the C++98/C++03 compilation level also, 
> even though I would argue that not having a "cxxstd" json field should 
> mean C++98/C++03 by default.

I would not treat a missing cxxstd as "C++03" because that makes the 
proposal mostly useless: Your goal was to tell end users whether they 
can use the library given their std level. Now you treat libraries with 
missing information as "compatible with everything" so end users will 
become confused and annoyed and will ultimately not use this. I'd hence 
make it explicit and never assume.

BTW: This will ultimately end up at (e.g.) 
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/, won't it? Or where would that be 
displayed?

If so the field "Standard" should be clarified. I'm not sure what it 
means here and it often is empty (which I'd simply remove)