20.04.2019, 01:16, "Alex Christensen" <achristen...@apple.com>: > 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?
[1] says: "we support each major Debian version until one year after the release of the next major version" Given that Buster is not released yet, bumping GCC requirement to 7 seems to be premature. OTOH, GCC 6 has partial support of C++17 [2,3] under -std=c++1z, which might be sufficient for now. [1] https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx17 [3] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html#status.iso.2017 -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
