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Dominic Hamon commented on MESOS-750:
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The first step is to land a change that gives a clearer error message when
trying to compile C++11 with an unsupported compiler. Shortly afterwards, I'll
be wrapping the 4.8-only code in a macro that will only be defined for
clang/g++-4.8 so we can once again support C++11 on older compilers. This will
enable us to then switch to requiring C++11 but still supporting g++-4.4 and up.
Pretty soon we'll start using C++11 language features that are supported on g++
4.6 and above, at which point that will become the required compiler. But
that's more reasonable than 4.8, I think.
When g++ 4.8 is more widely available, the 4.8-only code paths will become the
only code path.
I hope this satisfies everyones' concerns.
> 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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