> I would think by the time older LTS distros are up to C++17, that
> Scintillua/LongTerm3 will have no reason to exist anymore.

Old LTS will never get it, thats why they are called "stable", what I
meant is the next LTS, for example Ubuntu is scheduled to release a
new LTS next month which will have gcc7 in its repositories even if it
uses gcc 6 by default.

 IIUC it's only
> the new maintainer of that branch needing to stick to C++11 for his own
> project(s) for now and so can't use the tip of Scintilla code. I assume that
> eventually the goal is to have Scintillua into the mainline or some future
> external library containing all of Scintilla's lexers (see
> scintilla-interest mailing list).

Or at least support it there.

Cheers
Lex
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