I’m interpreting the lack of objection to mean there is no reason not to 
proceed with https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197131 once I get 
everything working nicely.

> On Apr 19, 2019, at 3:16 PM, Alex Christensen <achristen...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
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