[Bro] Bro Roadmap and Linux Distro Compatibility

[Slagell, Adam J]

I am just talking about C++11 support

> On May 31, 2016, at 3:43 PM, Gary Faulkner <gfaulkner.nsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Are we just talking C++11 support, which RHEL 7 supports (current git master compiles as long as you install CAF), or something where I'll want to jump to something with a 4.x kernel and C++14 support, say Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Fedora etc? RHEL 7 appears to have CMake 2.8.11 and GCC 4.8.5. The latter supports C++11, but I don't believe it supports anything newer. At one point I thought I saw talk of wanting to move to C++14 on the dev list.
> 
> ~Gary
> 
>> On 5/31/16 11:52 AM, Slagell, Adam J wrote:
>> Yes, you should for Bro 2.5. I suppose you will be able to disable broker at config time and maybe still compile, but the RHEL 6 compiler doesn’t support all of Bro’s code or its dependencies.
>> 
>>> On May 31, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Gary Faulkner <gfaulkner.nsm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm about to build a couple more worker nodes and it got me wondering
>>> whether I should migrate to a newer Linux distro. My current cluster is
>>> running on RHEL 6.x, but over the past couple years I've noticed changes
>>> to Bro that temporarily required installing newer versions of CMake than
>>> RHEL 6.x originally supported. RHEL 6.x eventually broke the mold of not
>>> breaking binary compatibility around RHEL 6.6 and moved to a newer CMake
>>> which made the RHEL packaged CMake Bro compatible once again. As such
>>> I'm wondering if there is anything in the pipeline that would break
>>> compatibility a properly updated RHEL 6.x/Centos6.x. I'd rather not
>>> maintain separate versions of libraries to build Bro if possible. We're
>>> technically a RHEL shop, so I'd probably be looking at RHEL7.x, but I
>>> could look at another distro that is more aggressive with running newer
>>> kernels and software libraries if necessary. Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> ~Gary
>>> 
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