Re: Dropping C++03 support (again)

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-02-04 13:27:50

On 2/4/23 16:23, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> Also, I suggest we name the first Boost version that requires C++11 as Boost
>> 2.0 and the C++03-compatible releases continue to be 1.x. The compiled
>> binaries for 2.x should be named differently from 1.x, i.e. add a new tag in 2.x
>> binaries.
> 
> This will be a much bigger change that will break _a lot_ more things than just
> C++03, so I'm not sure how enthusiastic I am about it.
> 
>> This will make it easier for downstream consumers to ship 2.x and 1.x
>> releases side by side, should it be needed. Point releases may not be
>> convenient for downstream since, for example, Debian dev packages for Boost
>> are named as libboost-math1.74-dev (no point version).
> 
> As long as the point releases are kept binary compatible, packagers can still
> replace 1.82.0 with 1.82.1 using their own versioning mechanism.
> 
> https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/22.04/ubuntu-universe-amd64/libboost-math1.74-dev_1.74.0-14ubuntu3_amd64.deb.html

But we don't support binary compatibility.