On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Alan Griffiths < alan.griffi...@canonical.com> wrote:
> On 17/02/15 12:37, Alexandros Frantzis wrote: > > Let me know what you think. > > There are probably four important constituencies that need to build Mir > and they may well be targeting different platforms. > > 1. Mir developers - they are clearly targeting vivid > 2. Client-side "toolkit" developers - these could be targeting the LTS > (trusty) or the stable release (utopic) as well as vivid > 3. Server-side "Shell" developers - the ones we are aware of are > targeting vivid > 4. Graphics "platform" developers - there are none, but they would > likely target the LTS (trusty) > I doubt such developers would do it in a vacuum. They probably would (need to) work very closely to us - or even we would be doing it ourselves. > > So, there are reasons to support development on trusty. > > Having said that, as the OP mentions C++14 support is only one of the > issues: > > We've currently got an MP that reworks a test so that it builds with the > version of gmock available on trusty. If we assume that only /1/ above > needs to build the tests then we wouldn't need that. > > IIUC it is also possible to install g++-4.9 on the LTS > > So I don't see using C++14 disenfranchising anyone that doesn't already > have issues. > > -- > Mir-devel mailing list > Mir-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/mir-devel > -- Cemil Azizoglu Mir Display Server - Team Lead Canonical USA
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