Re: Boost Libraries and Dropping C++ Language Support

From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-02-23 16:20:33

On 23/02/2023 15:44, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 4:05 PM Niall Douglas via Boost 
> <boost_at_[hidden] <mailto:boost_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
> 
>     RHEL 7 EOLs in June 2024 and it comes with GCC 4.8.
> 
> 
> But you can use official RHEL DTS packages which provide newer compilers 
> too.
> Which is exactlty what is happening where I work. So even w/o going as 
> far as compiling
> your own GCC from source, you can (relatively) easily use much newer 
> GCC, in our case
> 9.1.1 from DTS9 on RHEL7 with C++17. Why be limited to the default 
> system compiler?

It's not us, it's our customers. And no, they won't use any compiler 
which isn't the system default. Thus we all await with relish and 
excitement when RHEL 7 goes EOL, and we can finally wave goodbye to all 
GCCs before 8.

Niall