Re: Future of C++ and Boost

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-05-12 18:30:55

On 5/12/22 9:55 AM, John Maddock via Boost wrote:
> 
>> I don't think it's pedantic.  You're right.
>>
>> I had forgotten about these.  I can say that over 20 years, I've never 
>> run across this with the serialization library which has a lot of 
>> lines of code. Were it to happen, I'd have to decide what kind of 
>> compatibility to maintain.  Given that 03 isn't really testible these 
>> days, that might be the end of that.
>>
>> It's also very possible that one or more of these presented themselves 
>> and it so trivial to update that I forgot about it.
>>
>> All in all I don't think this should be a big issue.
> 
> Watch out - all of <codecvt> is deprecated in C++17, I think you're 
> relying only on <local> and may be OK though...

wow - that would be a big one.  codecvt is the fundamental component to 
support wchar is it not?  Does this mean that wchar is gone also?  If so 
what replaced it? etc....

> 
> John.
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