On Wednesday, 11 September 2019 at 17:59, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote: > There are a few patches and pull requests asking for C++11 support in > Open Babel. > > My main question is when we "pull the plug" on older compilers. > > Pro - drop older compilers for 3.0 since we're dropping a bunch of > backwards compatibility Con - we're changing a lot of other stuff, let > older compilers still use OB-3.0 > > From what I can tell, gcc-4.8 supports C++11 going back to mid-2013, > but I'm not sure what distros have older compilers (e.g., CentOS).
FWIW, RHEL/CentOS 7 have gcc-4.8.5 and 7.3.1 and 8.3.1 are available via devtoolset-7 and devtoolset-8 SCLs, respectively. Actually, the above devtoolsets are available for RHEL/CentOS 6, too. So, if you still care about that old distro, you don't have to rely on its base gcc-4.4.7 version. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
