On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> wrote:

Recently, I've been participating in some discussion as to how to enable
C++11 support for EPEL builds. Specifically, R (and its large universe
of addons in CRAN) would benefit significantly from C++11 support.

After much discussion, it seems like the only sane way to do this is to
use the Red Hat Developer Toolset (for el6 and el7). It is my
understanding that all RHEL customers (and CentOS users) should be able
to enable this repository without restrictions.

I'd like to propose that we enable the Developer Toolset repo in EPEL
and allow packages to depend on it. Thoughts?

Previously, the big hold up was that it was at least partially behind a paywall, but now that it's open and headed up by a SIG, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't start benefit from using it. It might be nice to have some rules or at least recommendations on which version to use and there will need to be a policy when versions are EOLed, but maybe just an automated set of rebuilds would be sufficient.