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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Seth,

Sorry for the delayed response, this got lost in my inbox.  I'm on the
fence about this.  My gut says push it v7 development given the amount
of work we have to do for v6 but I'm not opposed to it as long as we can
build it on all of our supported platforms.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 7/5/19 3:52 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> 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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