Re: Any objections to making C++14 the current baseline for Boost support and testing?

From: Dominique Pellé (dominique.pelle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-06-10 17:03:46

Christophe B via Boost-users <boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Would there be an intent to increase the support of new standard libraries by boost libraries? On top of my head, I think first to shared_ptr<> and
> error_code.
> Mixing std libraries and their equivalent in boost is most of the time tedious. Concretely, it becomes difficult to integrate components and
> interoperate them when some adopt std::error_code while others must stick boost::system::error_code due to constraints (mainly asio and beast. We
> thought to migrate to the standalone asio, but there is no equivalent for beast). Even if some efforts have been done to convert boost error_code to
> std ones, this is far from ideal.
>
> And as mentioned by Martijn Otto, I would opt also for jumping directly to C++17.

In my company at least, we're still stuck with C++14 because some
customers use old toolchains and we use boost.  So requiring C++17
would be annoying.  Boost is nice for projects that can't use a recent C++
standard as it provides things like boost::optional, boost::variant,
boost::filesystem (etc.) instead of the std ones which require newer
C++ standards.

Dominique