+1
> On 05 Jan 2016, at 00:06, Anand Mazumdar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I would like to propose that we bump our minimum supported version for gcc
> from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1. The main motivation behind this is that there are at
> least 2 outstanding reviews on RB that want to use ref-qualifiers
> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2439.htm>
> introduced in GCC 4.8.1. The reviews in question are r41870
> <https://reviews.apache.org/r/41870> and r41593
> <https://reviews.apache.org/r/41593/diff/2?file=1173648#file1173648line58>.
>
> Also, our Getting Started document <http://mesos.apache.org/gettingstarted/>
> for Mesos already lists the minimum gcc version as > 4.8. Looking at the
> release timeline <https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/> for GCC, it seems that
> 4.8.0/4.8.1 were released within a week of each other.
>
> Does anyone have a strong opinion against this change ?
>
> -anand
>
>
