Re: [boost] Boost is supposed to serve *the entire C++ community; it isn't Boost's goal to serve Boost's community*

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost is supposed to serve *the entire C++ community; it isn't Boost's goal to serve Boost's community*
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-22 16:09:41

On Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:05:00 MSK Rainer Deyke wrote:
> 
> Yes, it's a shame that
> Ubuntu isn't more proactive about making more up-to-date 
compiler
> packages available, but there's nothing I can do about it.

Actually, Ubuntu is quite proactive. The latest release is 16.04 
(which is also an LTS release) provides gcc 5.3.1 out of the box. 
Also, there is PPA[1] which provides more recent compiler 
versions.

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/
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