Status of P0645 (std::format) in libstdc++

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Sun, 16 May 2021, 03:29 Ed Smith-Rowland, <3dw4rd@verizon.net> wrote:

> On 5/15/21 9:27 AM, Jonathan Wakely via Libstdc++ wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 May 2021, 12:10 Spencer Collyer, <
> spencer@spencercollyer.plus.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Firstly, I hope it is OK to ask questions like the following on this
> list.
> >>
> > Yes, totally fine!
> >
> >
> >
> >> I'm wondering what the status of P0645 in libstdc++ is at the moment?
> This
> >> is the proposal that introduces the std::format text formatting library
> in
> >> C++20.
> >>
> >> I've checked the page
> >>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html#status.iso.2020
> .
> >> The line for that proposal just mentions the SD 6 feature test macro
> check
> >> to see if it is supported. Is it being worked on at present?
> >>
> >
> > No, not that I'm aware of.
> >
> > For now, the best option is to use the fmt library from GitHub.
>
> I was looking into this (not that I have time) and decided that grabbing
> fmt is the best way forward for libstdc++ if the licensing could work.
>

Maybe, although an independent re-implementation of the spec has big
advantages for the quality of the spec.