I think the question would be about C++11 support in GCC and the versions of GCC available in different distributions. IIRC, 4.8 was the first version to have fairly complete C++11 support?
-Geoff --- Prof. Geoffrey Hutchison Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh tel: (412) 648-0492 email: geo...@pitt.edu web: http://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/ > On Jun 1, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <marcus.hanw...@kitware.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to test the room on requiring C++11 in Avogadro 2. We have > optional fallback to Boost right now, and some macros to make things > work for the limited subset of C++11 we use. We cannot really take > advantage of things like auto, lambdas, and move constructors easily. > There are also things like atomics, threading features and regex. > > With things like docker containers, and the fact that Windows has > Visual Studio 2013 community (not sure Open Babel compiles there yet, > but we should be able to help) are there good reasons to stay away > from a hard requirement of C++11? I think if we continue the current > pattern we have to use new features in fairly limited forms (made > sense in 2011, not sure it does in 2015). > > Thoughts? > > Marcus > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Avogadro-devel mailing list > Avogadro-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Avogadro-devel mailing list Avogadro-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel
