Re: Dropping C++03 support (again)

From: Jeff Garland (azswdude_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-02-17 18:04:15

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 11:01 AM Peter Dimov via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Andrey Semashev wrote:
> > On 2/17/23 19:17, Jeff Garland via Boost wrote:
> > >
> > >> rush to deliver spaceship broke some code
> > >
> > > So what? Progress can't be made without *some* mistakes -- as you
> > > should know, there are a lot of complicated cases.  The fixes for that
> > > breakage weren't difficult.
> >
> > I wouldn't say so. We still haven't fixed Boost.Operators (not for the
> lack of
> > trying), which still remains officially broken in C++20.
> >
> > https://github.com/boostorg/utility/issues/65
> >
> > In fact, this very issue is the reason I'm hesitant upgrading my
> projects to
> > C++20 and beyond.
>
> Seconded.
>
> https://github.com/boostorg/function/issues/45
>
> C++23 makes it somewhat better, but doesn't fix everything.
>

hmm well it either fixes it or it doesn't -- not sure, but this was applied
as a DR to C++20 so we shouldn't have to wait for 23.

https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/1127