On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:26:48 +0200, Julien Bect wrote:
Just wanted to share my disappointment: I just realized that, because of the
introduction of C++11 features, the "parallel" package cannot be installed
on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
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I haven't tested, but the same can be said of Debian Wheezy (7.0), which was
released in 2013 and will reach its LTS end of life in May 2018. Wheezy has
gcc 4.7, with a better but still incomplete support of C++11...
Correct, I would say the same thing about Debian 7. I still have a
Debian 7 server running that I haven't gotten around to updating, but I
wouldn't expect to be able to run the latest software on it, only to
keep it running as is with the software that was packaged for it.
Right---the development target environment has to be the latest
available. After all, new versions of the compiler could fail to
compile old code, and the only sane approach is to track the code to
the newest compiler.