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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seth,

That's fine but we might want to give it more than a week or two.  I was
thinking more like a month or two.

Wayne

On 7/10/19 2:06 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> 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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