<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2018-03-27, at 2:40 PM, Chris Jones wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">But I would instead propose that MacPorts never puts forward a compiler that can't handle c++14 at this point in time instead.<br></blockquote><br>Agreed, but what about c++17 ? And then the next standard, and so on. This is an issue that isn’t going to go away with just 11, or 14...<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>My suggestion: Any time more than 5 or 10 % of the ports require a newer standard, bump it for everyone across the board to stay ahead of the curve.</div><div><br></div><div>If we did this, only a few ports with the very latest compiler needs should need to blacklist anything (and they probably always will, if they are that cutting edge).</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Ken</div></body></html>