Re: Dropping C++03 support (again)

From: Matt Borland (matt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-02-08 17:00:45

> That's not entirely true. <type_traits> is functional under GCC 4.8, it's only missing
> 
> a handful of traits (is_trivially_*) and that's not hard to work around.
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> https://github.com/boostorg/variant2/blob/95a8c5ffec407533893fa39900bc7799c20c755e/include/boost/variant2/variant.hpp#L510-L535
> 

Everything can be worked around by either a) trading one boost dependency for another (TypeTraits -> MP11) or b) rolling my own solution every time. I expect that we will stay at C++11 for years to come so drawing the line at fully compliant C++11 would be a clean cut.

Matt