2.6.0 features

[Chris Jones]

> On 6 Oct 2019, at 1:18 pm, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> that is extremely sensible and what many might expect, so we should consider adding it like that as a synonym for the compiler year, but that does also set that flag. I also said as much when this first came about.

I would support doing that. I also was a little surprised to see the feature was implemented by specifying the year, rather than the specific standard to use.

Chris

> Many years ago I read that Apple (Steve) sat in a room watching people try to use the new Macs, and saw how they were trying to do certain tasks. He then went back and made the computer work that way.
> 
> Big lesson there.
> 
> K
> 
>> On Oct 6, 2019, at 05:10, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> that we would specify the language standard needed, i.e. "c++17" or "gnu++11".