Hi Wes and Julien, At this point, parquet-cpp is heavily reliant on C++11 features and semantics. Believe it or not :), there are plenty of companies still running older versions of Linux that do not support C++11. Removing this dependency will make parquet-cpp usable (and much more appealing) to them.
We would like to make parquet-cpp C++09 compatible. The end goal is to have a library that can compile with and without --std==c++11 flag. There are two parts of this process. The first one is to redefine or remove C++11 keywords, such as auto, unique_ptr, std::move, or for( : ) loops. The other part is to evaluate our use of C++11 features that are harder to replace, such as shared_ptr, make_shared(), etc., and either write our own implementation for this or modify code where appropriate (such as replace shared_ptr with unique_ptr where possible). We can do this either by maintaining a separate feature branch and periodically pulling new code from parquet-cpp; or by implementing the compatibility functionality directly in parquet-cpp (all future PRs will be tested for c++09 compatibility during CI builds). What are your thoughts on this? Thank you, Aliaksei.
