I'm all for this! I don't see why this would be an issue, especially with how easy it is to grab things from brew these days.
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Michael Park <mp...@apache.org> wrote: > I'd like to drop support for Apple Clang. > > With the C++14 upgrade, we'll be requiring many distros to fetch a newer > compiler. In most cases it only takes a few commands to get a newer > compiler. This is also true of OS X, where clang-4.0 can be easily > installed with `brew install llvm`. > > The current codebase does not compile with Apple Clang under C++14 mode. We > could choose to investigate whether this is a Mesos bug or an Apple Clang > bug, but after doing a brief investigation myself, I feel like it's not > worth the effort. There are already cases where we need to install a new > compiler on OS X due to Apple Clang releases based on clang-3.8 (MESOS-5745 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-5745>). > > Not that Apple Clang was "officially" supported anyway, but we have had > minor workarounds (e.g., THREAD_LOCAL) to support it. > > Please let me know what you think! > > Thanks, > > MPark >
