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[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I understand people not wanting to even switch to C++11 as it is still
relatively new. I just wanted to point out that a standard should be put in
CMakeLists.txt.

For now (until at least the next Ubuntu LTS comes out in April since that
seems to be the slowest updating OS to support) maybe set the C++98 as the
default, and have a compiler flag for enabling C++11? Rather than ignoring
C++11 entirely we could at least make sure that we don't have any errors
that would make switching at a later time more difficult.

I'd be happy to provide/set up the build on jenkins.

Jon

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:54 PM Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> For what it's worth...
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/cxx0x_status.html
>
> As of GCC 4.8.1, C++11 is pretty much fully supported. They use the term
> "experimental", but they do list everything and say "yes" to almost
> everything. Is there some compatibility issue I'm missing here? It looks
> to me like we can build C++11 on /all/ our supported platforms now.
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 01:35:36AM +0000, Jon Neal wrote:
> > Just read this the other day and figured it would be good to discuss
> before
> > it happens.
> >
> > GCC is going to be defaulting to C++14 for compiler flags when GCC 6 is
> > released in ~6 months. I browsed the CMakeLists.txt in the root directory
> > and didn't see anything about setting a standard. Nowish would be a good
> > time to pick a C++ standard and put it in there.
> >
> > I know Wayne has mentioned in the recent past the wish to not switch to
> > C++11 yet[1] which I understand. FWIW when the next Ubuntu LTS is
> released
> > in 3 months the gcc provided will have C++11 out of experimental. Just
> food
> > for thought.
> >
> > Jon
>
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