<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 4, 2016, at 8:40 AM, Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Zachary Turner <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:zturner@google.com" target="_blank" class="">zturner@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I ask because many of these LTS distros are notoriously slow at updating their packages. While some people may think C++14 doesn't provide enough bang for the buck to justify bumping to GCC 4.9, C++17 definitely does. But at that point we're going to be talking about GCC 6.1 or 6.2, which is going to be significantly harder unless we want to wait 5-7 years, and I suspect people won't.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If by "notoriously slow" you mean they don't bump their toolchain versions at all, then yeah. We just wait until the LTS release is at end-of-life before dropping it.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>That’s the first time I read about this policy: we support every linux LTS distribution till their end-of-life? Only Ubuntu? Do you have a pointer where it is documented / discussed?</div><div>(Note that Ubuntu LTS is 5 years AFAIK.)</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">Forcing people to upgrade their distro every two years is still pretty annoying, and I'd rather not do it without a compelling reason.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I agree with this.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">Seriously, I think we can survive another year without generic lambdas and generalized constexpr.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>As much as I like these new toys, I tend to agree with this as well FWIW.</div><div><br class=""></div></div><div>— </div><div>Mehdi</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>