[MESOS-2604] Upgrade minimum required compilers for MESOS

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: build
• Labels: c++11
• Target Version/s: 0.23.0
• Assignee: Cody Maloney
• Reporter: Cody Maloney
• Shepherd: Benjamin Hindman
• Created: 09/Apr/15 21:04
• Updated: 29/Apr/19 09:27
• Resolved: 04/May/15 20:45

Description

As discussed in the last community meeting we would like to upgrade the minimum mesos compiler version to GCC 4.8+, Clang 3.5. GCC primarily for Linux. Clang for OS X, as well as linux for enabling Mesos tooling improvements (clang-format, clang-tidy among others).

Some documents for reference:
Compilers by Distribution Version
Shows we can get GCC 4.8+ or clang 3.5+ on all supported platforms.

C++11 features supported by each compiler:
https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html
http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html

Issue Links

• blocks: MESOS-1991 Remove dynamic allocation from Option