Re: Boost website changes and .'cxxstd'

From: Alexander Grund (alexander.grund_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-01-22 13:06:03

> I have slogged through the task of creating PRs for all Boost 
> libraries, even the very many C++03 minimum standard libraries, so 
> that each library would have a 'cxxstd' value in their JSON meta 
> information. It is up to the various library maintainers if they want 
> to accept the PR or not, and a great many of them already have. 
> Hopefully the final result will be that all Boost libraries will show 
> a ‘C++ Standard Minimum Level’ in the documentation page. For those 
> libraries that do not want to show such information, and ignore my PR 
> for that library, end-users can ask the library maintainer(s) directly 
> what the C++ Standard Minimum Level" is through the libraries Github 
> page.
Thanks a lot for your efforts and I'm certain this is the best approach.
> I do recall seeing somewhere in the Boost website an explanation of 
> the meaning of the various fields shown for each library's 
> documentation, but I can not recall where this is anymore.
See https://www.boost.org/development/library_metadata.html