On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Michael Banck <mba...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 01:20:01PM -0400, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote: >> > Debian stable (jessie) ahs GCC 4.8 and 4.9, but it got released very >> > recently and many are still on oldstable (wheezy) with GCC 4.7. >> >> I guess your impression agrees with Marcus - that "probably everything >> we would use soon" is fine and we can target anything supported by GCC >> 4.7.x. > > As far as important Debian/Ubuntu releases are concerned, yes, (if 4.7 > really implements all the features), RHEL/CentOS/SL 6 might be an > important target as well (or not, dunno), and AFAIK it only ships GCC > 4.4 (but might have some C++ features backpatched). > Closing the loop on this, I feel pretty comfortable in bumping this. I think tagging before making a hard dependency on C++11 features would be good in case people wanted that, but see no reason not to start using modern C++ functionality.
Compiler support seems reasonable, building new compilers on older machines is also possible, I know Ubuntu 12.04 still has a few years of support left and that may present some issues but there is already a new LTS people can move to (I think they get five years). Marcus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o _______________________________________________ Avogadro-devel mailing list Avogadro-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel
