On the 0x216 day of Apache Harmony Gregory Shimansky wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > did we ever bottom out on what range of GCC we'll support? > > I have a patch I want to commit that is known to not compile under > > 4.1.1... > > Hmm no I don't remember such agreement. I think GCC is mostly > backwards compatible, and anything that compiles on 4.1.1 should > compile on previous versions. So it is better to support the latest > stable. > > Not many people would like to install such GCC version, but someone > like me could at least give warnings that the most recent version of > GCC doesn't compile some code.
yes, and comment JIRA accordingly (with suggested fix). This way we can support a very wide renge of GCCs constantly. I doubt I can use the latest GCC soon, so I cannot check patches constantly. Does it make sense to use something CruiseControl-ish that walks around JIRA patches and reports statistics which of them build OK? I thought of such a tool recently.. Not a task I would dream to implement though. -- Egor Pasko
