[GitHub] [arrow-adbc] paleolimbot commented on issue #815: c: explicitly set C++11 for non-test code for R's benefit

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paleolimbot commented on issue #815:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-adbc/issues/815#issuecomment-1596237692

   Just adding the background here:
   
   There are two platforms that are not uncommon for R where this comes up (R 3.6 on Windows and Centos7/RHEL7 with the default compilers). R 3.6 is fairly old; however, it still shows up on Windows in environments where IT is slow to update software (e.g., some government agencies). RHEL 7 shows up in institution-provisioned servers for platforms like RStudio Server. Both of these use-cases frequently involve end-users that can't do much about their environment although typically they *can* install R packages from CRAN.
   
   It's not absolutely essential that ADBC database drivers work on these somewhat ancient platforms for R packages; however, if possible it would be nice when I'm promoting the initial versions of the drivers to support all the versions in the tidyverse support grid ( https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2019/04/r-version-support/ ). The current schedule suggests that 2024 is when support for R 3.6 will be dropped (which I think is also EOL for Centos 7).


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