Re: [boost] Boost Libraries and Dropping C++ Language Support

On 23/02/2023 15:44, Dominique Devienne wrote:

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 4:05 PM Niall Douglas via Boost mailto:boost@lists.boost.org> 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