Re: Boost website changes and .'cxxstd'

From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-02-25 21:27:02

On 2/6/2021 4:45 PM, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:
> On 1/22/2021 8:06 AM, Alexander Grund via Boost wrote:
>>
>>> 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
> 
> I have created a PR for the above HTML page, adding in an explanation 
> for the 'cxxstd' field.
> 
> So far my PR for the 'cxxstd' metadata field has seen 93 Boost libraries 
> adding the 'cxxstd' field to their metadata, but 38 libraries have yet 
> to do so. Hopefully those other 38 libraries which merge my PR so that 
> the end-user can clearly see what the C++ minimum compilation level is 
> for each Boost library.

There are still some 35 libraries which have yet to merge my PR for 
'cxxstd' into 'develop'. These are:

accumulators
asio
bimap
chrono
container
container_hash
contract
crc
foreach
format
graph
graph_parallel
intrusive
lambda
locale
local_function
move
mpi
msm
odeint
polygon
program_options
property_tree
proto
ratio
scope_exit
statechart
test
thread
typeof
type_erasure
units
unordered
uuid
xpressive

If you are a maintainer of any of these libraries can you please merge 
the appropriate PR into 'develop', the merge to 'master' for the 
upcoming release.

Of the other 96 libraries which did merge my PR into 'develop', I do not 
know how many have merged the change to 'master'. The libraries which I 
control have done so.

Also it would be nice if my PR for the website.git explaining the 
'cxxstd' field was merged for the upcoming release.