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Benjamin Mahler commented on MESOS-750:
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We definitely don't want to alienate contributors or users, a few questions:
# Approximately how long will it take for Debian stable to bundle gcc 4.8.x?
Looks like [no release date|http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/] is set? It
looks like Ubuntu 14 LTS is slated for [mid-2014|https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS],
which will [include 4.8.x|http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gcc]. Those on
Ubuntu 13.10 are ok as well.
# Can those on Ubuntu 12.10 obtain gcc 4.8 in a sane way? Ditto for Debian. If
we can guide them with clear instructions at ./configure time that would
certainly ease the pain. However, the run-time libraries are still in question.
> 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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