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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne-

No worries!

How about this:  We bump the C++ version in cmake but not put any C++14 
code into the codebase for a week or two to see if there are any issues 
with supported platform packagers.  If there are issues with supported 
platforms, we revert and wait for v7.  If not, we start allow C++14 
code.

-Seth


On 2019-07-10 13:00, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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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