On Mar 23, 2018, at 14:42, Kenneth F. Cunningham wrote: > On 2018-03-23, at 12:02 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> I still like the convention of marking ports as "requires C++11" much >> more than "please blacklist gcc 3.0 and gcc 4.2". > > It's elegant, but also opens endless issues about C11 or C14 or C17 or c++17 > and brings much confusion, IMHO.
Specifying in a port what C or C++ language standard is used shouldn't bring confusion; it should resolve it.