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Dominic Hamon commented on MESOS-750:
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This means we will no longer be able to build with g++ 4.7.x, the default
compiler for debian wheezy (stable) and the latest compiler available for
Ubuntu 12.04 stable.
If we're asking people to switch to clang, version 3.0 that comes with debian
stable (for example) doesn't support many features that we may want, like
initializer lists: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
While many devs will be able to jump to g++ 4.8 or clang 3.3, there may be many
who can't. We need to be very careful here or we'll lose potential
contributors. Not to mention people building on platforms without the runtime
frameworks available.
> Require compilers that support c++11
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> Key: MESOS-750
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-750
> Project: Mesos
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Benjamin Mahler
> Labels: technical_debt
> Fix For: 0.19.0
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> Requiring C++11 support will provide substantial benefits to Mesos.
> Most notably, the lack of lambda support has resulted in a proliferation of
> continuation style functions scattered throughout the code. Having lambdas
> will allow us to reduce this clutter and simplify the code.
> This will require carefully documenting how to get Mesos compiling on various
> systems to make this transition easy.
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