Re: [lmi] Replacing boost with C++ standard library [Was: Replacing boost with std C++11]

[Greg Chicares]

On 2018-02-26 12:15, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:31:48 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> GC> Now the only remaining obstacle is 'filesystem'.
> 
>  FWIW g++ 7 has std::experimental::filesystem and MinGW does provide it
> too, so we might already start using it if we upgrade the compiler used
> (which shouldn't create any problems, there are not that many changes
> between g++ 6 and 7).

Yes, debian-testing has MinGW-w64 gcc-7.2:

  https://packages.debian.org/buster/g++-mingw-w64
| Package: g++-mingw-w64 (7.2.0-20+20.2)

so I'll try getting that from backports for my debian-stable chroot.

> OTOH it might make sense to wait until g++ 8 which
> will have it std::filesystem itself.

Even debian-unstable doesn't have that yet, so I won't wait.

>  I could also resurrect my ancient patch updating the code to use version 3
> (on which C++17 std::filesystem is based) of Boost.Filesystem API instead
> of the version 1 that we use currently, not so much for applying it, but to
> use as a base for the later switch to std::filesystem.

Yes, please!