roadmap for v3.1.x

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

> On 28 Oct 2015, at 10:13, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 28, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Jorge Pereira <jpereiran at gmail.com> wrote:
>> exist roadmap for v3.1.x?
> 
>  We don't have a definitive roadmap.  We do have plans, though.
> 
>  Until now, we've tried hard to stay with C99 standards for the server.  This is good for backwards compatibility, as there are many people running weird OSes, or old OSes.  That backwards compatibility is now a problem.

We should also start removing compatibility fixes for versions of software released before 2011.

>  To solve this, we will move the 3.1 branch to using the latest C11 standard.

* we have moved.

It won't build on systems with compilers without C11 support.

Support for old style pthread based thread-local storage has been removed.  Some of the shim code is still there to provide destructors on thread exit.

>  This means thread-local storage, C99 initializers, C11 atomics, etc.  All of these features make it easier for us to maintain the server.
> 
>  So anyone running RedHat 6 is sol.  Sorry, but that's life.

Unless you run clang, which does implement the basic features of C11 on RHEL6.

-Arran

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS development team

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