Why not make the jump to 17 now? There are a lot of nice bonuses in C++17 ( https://isocpp.org/files/papers/p0636r0.html is a reasonable summary) and given how long you’ve been on C++11, it seems like it’d be a while before upgrading again. Unless you figure you’d do the C++17 upgrade next year?
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 12:52 Larry Gritz <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote: > https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/2918 > > This is just testing the waters by changing the *default* compatibility > mode from C++11 to C++14, but not yet dropping support for C++11, to shake > anything loose that will be trouble for people. For now, you can keep > compiling master with C++11 by using -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=11 on the cmake > configure step. > > But the bump of the true minimum to C++14 (and dropping of gcc 4.8 and > MSVS 2015) is IMMINENT. > > For perspective, VFX Platform has specified C++14 since 2018, and > specifies C++17 for 2021. So this is not exactly a bleeding edge move. > > Of course, I'm only talking about master (future OIIO >= 2.3). Compilers, > standards, and other dependencies will never be removed from supported > release branches (currently 2.2). Nothing stops people from using 2.2 if > they need compatibility with older dependencies or build tools. > > I'm also thinking that by the time we release OIIO 2.3, other dependencies > may also have their minimum versions raised. For example, we currently > support OpenEXR as far back as 2.0 (2012!). > > So let this be the final notice -- if you are expecting OIIO 2.3 (not > officially released/supported until the second half of 2021) to be > compatible with gcc 4.8, C++11, MSVS < 2017, or to build against any > versions of its dependencies that are older than 2016, please speak up now > and we can discuss these requirements. > > > -- > Larry Gritz > l...@larrygritz.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > Oiio-dev@lists.openimageio.org > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org >
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