It’s always fun to reply to two year old emails. I would like to have a plan to start using and requiring C++17 in WebKit. Based on my minimal research, I believe that DebianBuster is frozen but not yet released. Is there something we are still waiting for, or could we begin making the switch?
> On Aug 4, 2017, at 4:00 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@igalia.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Yusuke SUZUKI <utatane....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Possibly, mcatanzaro and clopez know much about WebKitGTK+ compiler >> dependencies. > > As a result of the C++14 discussion on this list a few months ago, we relaxed > our dependencies policy [1] to allow upgrading to GCC 5 one year earlier than > planned, to the displeasure of some of our distributors who now have to build > a custom compiler as part of their WebKit builds. We would prefer not to > relax the policy further. > > Our current schedule looks like: > > * GCC 6 could be required in April 2018 (next Ubuntu LTS release) > * GCC 7 (required for C++17) could be required likely late in 2019 (next > Debian stable release) > > Is that acceptable for Apple? > > Michael > > [1] https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
