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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne-

This shouldn't affect users, only developers.  Once the binary is built, 
there are no differences in requirements for running KiCad.

I would only push this to master and not 5.1, so that 5.1.3+ bug fixes 
will still build for 14.04 (which was supported when 5.1 was released).

-Seth


On 2019-07-05 14:30, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Hey Seth,
>
> Sorry about the delay.  I've been wrestling (and loosing) with 
> restoring
> a broken boot manager on my desktop after a bios update stepped all 
> over
> my uefi boot configuration (thank you HP).  I would like to hold off on
> C++14 for a while.  I suspect there are users who prefer running older
> linux distros for stability purposes.  I would rather not throw those
> users under a bus just yet unless we have enough credible evidence that
> it wont be an issue.  I suppose we could always put it out there and 
> see
> who screams and undo the changes as needed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 7/1/19 7:20 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > Hi Devs-
> >
> > Now that Ubuntu 14.04LTS support has ended, are we building any
> > platforms that do not support C++14 (gcc prior to version 5)?
> >
> > If not, can we bump our compiler language support to C++14?  This 
> > would
> > allow us to drop the ban on certain version of GLM as well as our
> > custom-rolled std::make_unique.  There are a few language features
> > (generalized lambda captures!) that would tighten up quite a bit of 
> > code
> > if available.
> >
> > Obviously if we are still supporting a C++11 only system, this should 
> > be
> > delayed.
> >
> > Best-
> > Seth
> >
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