experimental status of C++17

[Stefan Ring]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:27 PM Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
> * Stefan Ring:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:53 PM Florian-Bogdan Tudoran
> > <tfbogdan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> We're currently using C++14 at my workplace and we're contemplating a
> >> switch to C++17. We're using GCC 8.2.1 as that's what's provided by Red Hat
> >> 7.
> >
> > There is already a devtoolset-8, at least on CentOS.
>
> There is?  I'm surprised that
>
>   <https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-8/>
>
> results in an error then.  I expected it to be parallel to
>
>   <https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-7/>
>
> , following
>
>   <https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/?search=devtoolset>
>
> .
>
> Do you know where the non-productized software collections live these
> days?

Sources: http://vault.centos.org/7.6.1810/sclo/Source/rh/devtoolset-8/
Binaries: http://centos.mirroraustria.at/7.6.1810/sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-8/

And I got mine for CentOS 6 from here:
http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHSCL/SRPMS/