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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon martinmoene

Move C++98 support to a branch named 'legacy'

Open DBJDBJ opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

DBJDBJ avatar Feb 08 '19 08:02 DBJDBJ

How would you explain the issue?

martinmoene avatar Feb 09 '19 18:02 martinmoene

Hi Martin, well probably like this:

It is not feasible to go bellow C++ version that is more than 8 years old. For good people in a real "need" for C++98, let them congregate around (and fork from) the "legacy" branch.
I hope onlookers do realise C++17 and C++98 are two different languages.

Important to notice: the suggested branch is not to be called "deprecated" it is to be called "legacy". Contributors who need this version are welcome to contribute.

Something along these lines?

DBJDBJ avatar Feb 13 '19 16:02 DBJDBJ

@DBJDBJ: I believe Martin's question is, why should this be done? It sounds like (A) you've asked for some work to be done in the repo; (B) you've just now given a reasonable explanation as to why this work would not be very harmful to most users; but you haven't given any thought to (C) whether this work would be helpful to anybody.

Quuxplusone avatar Feb 13 '19 17:02 Quuxplusone

@Quuxplusone ... feasibility Arthur :) Ie the amount of effort to make something that is useful and already exists in C++11 onwards or (god forbid, only) in the standard C++ onwards. So this work (which I have not specifically asked for) would be helpful to the maintainers of the project. First.

DBJDBJ avatar Feb 14 '19 11:02 DBJDBJ