Define supported & tested target platforms about flatdata HOT 2 CLOSED

I think this makes totally sense. I think that we also should build on both platforms with clang and gcc. Futher, it would be nice to use a bleeding edge compiler, however, to allow failures when using it. This would allow us to find bugs and warnings faster and also to prepare for the future changes.

So, if I am not mistaken, the matrix looks right now like that:

• Ubuntu LTS 16.04 + gcc Version ???
• Ubuntu LTS 16.04 + clang Version ???
• CentOS 8 + gcc Version ???
• CentOS 8 + clang Version ???
• Some system + gcc 7
• Some system + clang 5

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The latest stable CentOS ships with GCC 4.8.5, with the possibility to add GCC 5.3, 6.2, 7.2 and clang 4.0.1.

Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) ships with GCC 5.4, and 18.04 (bionic) will ship with GCC 7.2 in April. Both Ubuntu versions have official packages for clang 4 and 5.

I suggest we make a base image for each distribution, with Python and dependencies for instance, and compiler layers on top of it that we use as the Docker image label.

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