Hi, > On 12/10/2014 01:23 PM, Nick Mpallas wrote: >> I am building a platform and I need to compile apache mesos from >> sources. The issue is that the guys the require support for specific >> c++11 features that in the 4.7 compiler currently supported by debian >> aren't there. Will the g++ compiler will be updated? > > The versions in each release don't get updated, that's part of what makes it > "stable".
That and the fact that Debian tries to use a version of the software that has been out for a while and has proven to be relative free of bugs. > You'll need either to use jessie (that's going to be released in a couple of > months), or you could build an in house gcc backport (or even request one to > the backports team: [1]) One can even start using Jessie now if the problems that prevent releasing Jessie are not problems one runs into. Bonno Bloksma
