experimental status of C++17

[Florian Weimer]

* 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/

Ah, this is actually the usual place.  devtoolset-7 is next to it,
after all.  Thanks.

I will ask around why softwarecollections.org hasn't been updated.