I'm all for moving to GCC 4.9+. I'd love to get C++14 and bump to GCC 5, but I think we should do an investigation for "reasonable availability" before we do that.
Also, clang has supported C++14 / <regex> since 3.5, which is our current requirement. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Benjamin Mahler <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a spreadsheet linked in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-2604 that captures which OSes > we can support based on compiler version: > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ji8p3p_ > 1JqUsMxE31mJqqztHf7LDx7mGMXh253azWpU/edit#gid=0 > > Also, do we have already have a minimum clang version for C++14 / <regex>? > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Neil Conway <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > It seems that if we moved to GCC 5, we'd also be able to move to C++14 > > (https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx14). > > > > CentOS 6 users will need to install devtoolset anyway (which makes it > > easy to get GCC 5 or 6), so I wonder if skipping directly to requiring > > GCC 5 would be feasible? > > > > Neil > > > > > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Jacob Janco <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Along with various additions and optimizations, support for <regex> > > would be nice to have. Thoughts on this? > > >
