Re: Primary test compilers in Boost release notes

From: Boris Kolpackov (boris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-02-01 15:46:39

Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> There's a fair bit of discussion in the linked issue above, but what I think
> is reasonable to list as primary test compilers as far as GCC is concerned
> is something like
> 
> C++03: 4.8, 4.9, 5
> C++11: 4.8(*), 4.9(*), 5

To add a data point in case it helps with the decision: in build2
we've used the following compiler versions as minimum supported:

GCC   4.9
Clang 3.7
MSVC  14.3

This gives a C++14 subset that we found to be reasonably comfortable
to work with (move capture and generic lambdas, etc).

In particular, we dropped GCC 4.8 because it has an unusable
std::regex implementation (which was important for our use-case).