Re: Master branch is now open for bug fixes

From: Seth (bugs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-07-30 22:45:50

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024, at 5:23 PM, Дмитрий Архипов via Boost wrote:
> пн, 29 июл. 2024 г. в 23:50, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>:
>> Do you still have many users using gcc4?
>
> To be honest, I have no idea. I'm deprecating GCC 4, because I plan to
> use Charconv, and it requires GCC 5+. And I'm doing it now, because
> CentOS 7 (which used GCC 4.8) just went EOL .
>

I know some people are stuck in 2015. Just the other day: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78790362/85371 ; I don't see that as an argument to not move on though; I think the policies that cause these conservative practices are usually misguided.

Just my $0.02