open-telemetry / open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp

Plan move to C++17

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Description

According to the Abseil doc:

support for C++14 will be revisited on 2024-12-15:

Per policies:

C++ 14 will be dropped for C++17:

We will drop support for our oldest supported C++ standard when one of the following happens:

    All supported compilers* default to a newer version
    When 10 years pass since the standard's release date
    Example: In 2023, if all supported compilers use C++17 as their default, then we can drop support for C++14. Otherwise, we'll need to wait until 2024, which would be 10 years after C++14 was released.

When abseil no longer supports C++14 and requires C++17, so will gtest, gmock, grpc, overall forcing opentelemetry-cpp to drop C++14 as well.

We need to plan for this

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