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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
