Re: Poll: C++11 compiler support

Osamu Aoki <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Apr 2017 01:28:19 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.mail.maildrop,gmane.mail.imap.courier.general,gmane.mail.imap.courier.sqwebmail,gmane.mail.imap.courier.server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

For supported release, Debian has:

Debian oldstable  wheezy = 4.6 and 4.7
Debian stable     jessie = 4.9
Debian testing    stretch = 6.3 (probably becomes stable this month)

On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 03:21:43PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> The forward match of progress is requiring a clean break from the pre-c++11
> days. Under consideration is migrating the courier-unicode library, used by
> both Courier and Cone, to use C++11's unicode support only.
> 
> I am taking a poll whether there's still any notable platforms where Courier
> and Cone is used that's still using an old compiler that does not support
> C++11.
> 
> According to gcc's documentation, gcc 4.8.1 was the first version with full
> C++11 support; but it's likely that older versions of gcc had sufficient
> support. gcc 4.5's compliance page gives Unicode string literals as
> supported, so I'm fairly confident of sufficient C++11 unicode support at
> least in gcc 4.5, at the latest.

Then OK for all released and actively maintained versions.

Thanks.

Osamu

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