Re: Dropping C++03 support (again)

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-02-17 18:51:04

On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 6:08 AM Peter Dimov via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have a novel idea, let's drop C++03 support.
>
> The reasons to do that have been explicated already
> a number of times, e.g. in
>
> https://pdimov.github.io/articles/phasing_out_cxx03.html#_ongoing_costs_of_maintaining_c03_support
>
> To that end, I propose the following:
>
> Boost release 1.82.0 is announced as the last one
> with C++03 support. If critical problems are found
> in it post-release, we will issue 1.82.1, 1.82.2 and
> so on, as appropriate (as C++03 users will not be
> able to just upgrade to 1.83.)
>
> Boost release 1.83.0 is announced to require C++11
> at minimum. This means compilers that have all the
> C++11 standard headers, and support all the C++11
> syntactic constructs and keywords without issuing
> errors. (E.g. VS2013 doesn't qualify because it doesn't
> support the `constexpr` or `noexcept` keywords.)
>
> This proposal should ultimately be approved and
> implemented by the Boost release managers; their
> opinions are particularly appreciated.

Here you go.. <https://github.com/boostorg/website/pull/729>