Also related to this, I tried looking in the archives and couldn't find a previous discussion, was gcc 8.1 chosen over gcc 9 because mingw-w64 does not support v9 yet? It looks like 9 is the first version that makes C++17 support non-experimental
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-9/changes.html Regards, Steve Bronder Website: stevebronder.com Phone: 412-719-1282 Email: sbron...@stevebronder.com On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:36 AM Kevin Ushey <kevinus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Has a decision been made yet as to whether R 4.0.0 on Windows is going > to be built using the new gcc8 toolchain (described at > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/testing/rtools40.html)? > > From the sidelines, I can see that the toolchain is being used to > build and test packages on CRAN; if there are any remaining issues > that I can help to try and run down (either in R or any CRAN packages) > I'd be happy to try and help. > > FWIW, I'm excited at the prospect at seeing a new toolchain for > Windows, since it would imply support for C++17 and so it would become > easier for CRAN packages to depend on the newer C++ standard. > > Thanks, > Kevin > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
