On 11 March 2010 16:48, Geoffrey Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is this acceptable? I have no problem with this myself, as GCC 3.x is
>> almost (but not quite) obsolete and we can just make it a requirement
>> of the build.
>
> GCC 4.0 was released on April 20, 2005, and GCC-3.4.x (as a release series) 
> was created in 2004.
>
> Personally, I think it's OK to say for OB-2.3 that people should no longer 
> use GCC3.4. I believe for all platforms, if it's not the main compiler, a 
> package with a more recent version of GCC should be available.
>
> Otherwise, we'll *never* allow ourselves to use features like shared_ptr.

Well, I wasn't suggesting we ditch GCC 3.4, just that we require boost
for those people that use it. OpenBabel compiles fine right now if we
make this a requirement (shared_ptrs and all), but not without - I
just wanted to check whether this is fine.

- Noel

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