On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 06:35:21PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > Ah yes that is more important. I'm still wondering if it should go in > > RELEASE-NOTES as well. In our ANNOUNCE we recommend that packagers read > > the RELEASE-NOTES file. Don't we want packagers to be aware of this > > significant change? Or do we just assume they'll read INSTALL or figure > > it out if they get an error with an older compile? > > They don't need to do anything. Both with cmake and autotools you will get > the message "A C++11 compatible compiler is required" if you try to build > with a compiler which is too old. This is clear enough IMHO (and packagers > will most likely not run into this problem anyway, all default compilers of > all current linux distros are new enough).
OK makes sense. Thanks for explaining this. Scott
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