Re: [boost] [gil] Phasing out support C++11 and switching to C++17

On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 10:37, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

We're discussing [1] to start switching GIL to C++17 in the near future and, following Peter Dimov's policy on phasing out C++XY support [2], we'd like to:

1. Declare C++11 support deprecated in 1.75 (December 2020) 2. Drop C++11 support in 1.77 (?) (August 2021)

We are also considering, with Samuel, a less revolutionary approach: deprecate specific compiler/version in case it does not support certain C++11 features properly or suffers from bugs. For example, we may advertise dropping GCC 5 support due to issues similar to this https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pull/526 Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net