Re: GCC withdraw

23.08.2013 15:16, Kurt Jaeger пишет:
> Hi!
> 
>>> I have a patch that I intend to commit before the 10.0 code
>>> slush that removes GCC and libstdc++ from the default build on
>>> platforms where clang is the system compiler.  We definitely don't
>>> want to be supporting our 6-year-old versions of these for the
>>> lifetime of the 10.x branch.
>>
>> Isn't it a POLA violation?
>>
>> As for me I expect something like this:
>> . 9.x gcc default and clang in base;
>> . 10.x clang default and gcc in base;
>> . 11.x gcc withdraw.
> 
> If the 150 ports that only work with gcc, all work with a ports
> gcc and do not need the gcc from base, would the following be OK ?
> 
> - 9.x gcc default and clang in base;
> - 10.x clang default and gcc in ports;

Well, we write rules and we brake them. ;-)

Just say that we know we brake them but it's inevitable because...
And go futher.

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