Andrey Semashev wrote:
On 10/8/24 03:31, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
My point was that if we want people to contribute to our libraries in 2024, we shouldn't require from them to do so using C++98 code[...]
And we don't. We only require that "A library runs on at least two C++ compilers implementing the latest ISO C++ standard." (https://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Portability) There's also no requirement that new libraries use specific Boost libraries as a dependency, although reasonable code reuse is encouraged.
It's not about new libraries, but contributions/PRs to existing libraries. This is a separate topic that is unrelated to our marking libraries as obsolete; it was a response to the previously raised "why would anyone want to upgrade an existing working C++03 library to C++11 or later."