[geos-devel] RFC 5: C++11 Compilation Mode

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 1 April 2017 at 19:06, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 04/01/2017 06:44 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 06:25:09PM +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>> I'd rather wait for more votes than two.
>>> If no more votes arrive, I'll mark the RFC 5 as referred or withdrawn.
>>
>> You might have noticed that PSC has not been very active, lately, so
>> I would not wait for those votes to arrive.
>>
>> It's good to keep it open for more comments but I see no reason to
>> withdraw the proposal.
>
> I guess my two cents are requested because of the explicit CC.

No idea where the CC comes from.

>> From the Debian package POV there should be no issue in Debian for GEOS
>>= 3.6, that will only be available in buster (the stable release after
> the upcoming stretch release).
>
> The compiler requirements may be an issue for OSGeo-Live and/or
> UbuntuGIS, the toolchain in Ubuntu xenial as used by OSGeo-Live should
> be recent enough but I haven't verified this.

See https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/RFC5#C11

> If that's the case it may
> just block UbuntuGIS builds for the older LTS releases (i.e. trusty).
> Older Ubuntu LTS releases shouldn't be considered a blocker, those users
> are encouraged to upgrade to the latest LTS if they need a newer GEOS.

There is ppa: for trusty and older.

AFAIK, QGIS has used C++11 features since mid of 2015
and it is included in OSGeo Live.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net