+1 I'm pretty sure I'm one of the people that was opposed to this a few years ago. It's been long enough now... it's time to upgrade to 11. I recommend you pick a minimum GCC, MSVC, and Clang, and advertise support for those, rather than just say "C++11".
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 8:47 AM James E. King III <jk...@apache.org> wrote: > Advantages: > > 1. Simplify the C++ runtime implementation mainly > in the areas of threading. > 2. Resolve platform porting issues. > 3. Eliminate the dependency on boost for runtime. > > Disadvantages: > > 1. Folks who need C++03 support are stuck at 0.12.0 > > Other projects like boost are beginning to move forward > as well. I think it's time we do the same, so I would > like to call out comments and a vote. > > [ ] +1 Deprecate C++03 as of 0.12.0, use C++11 next release. > [ ] -1 Keep C++03 support in thrift going forward. > > The vote is open until Friday, January 04, at 20:00 UTC due > to the holidays and passes if at least three positive votes > from the active PMC group are cast. > > For folks not in the Thrift PMC, your comments are still > quite welcome on the matter, and may help folks make a > decision. > > Thanks, > > Jim King, PMC Member, Apache Thrift >
