Compiler version

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday, 28. June 2012 14:38:37 vivo75 at gmail.com wrote:
> Il 27/06/2012 23:41, Martin Gräßlin ha scritto:
> > On Wednesday 27 June 2012 23:28:30 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> I've tested the waters some time ago [1] what would people say if we
> >> started asking for more modern compilers. I've stated there I'll start
> >> the discussion on k-c-d once we branch out 4.9, so I'm doing as
> >> promised. The post was only about kactivities, but the same could be
> >> applied to more stuff.
> > 
> > Thanks for bringing up the issue, I actually intended to write a similar
> > mail tomorrow to request that applications are allowed to require
> > compilers supporting C++11 features.
> 
> actually for stability and feature related to c++11 gcc-4.7 is nearly
> the minimum, but in my experience gcc-4.7 is still a bit rough so +1 for
> gcc-4.6
> 
> > So +1 for a minimum requirement of gcc 4.6 or clang 3.1

-1 from me.
Latest Slackware release has 4.5, and I would very much prefer if this stays 
working.

I don't see the features mentioned worth dropping platforms.

Alex