El Dimecres, 27 de juny de 2012, a les 23:28:30, Ivan Čukić va escriure: > Hi all,
Hi > > I've tested the waters some time ago [1] what would people say if we > started asking for more modern compilers. Can you explain why you need a more modern version, I see a good analysis of what the current situation regarding compiler availability but i fail to see why we need a newer compiler. Cheers, Albert > I've stated there I'll start > the discussion on k-c-d once we branch out 4.9, so I'm doing as > promised. The post was only about kactivities, but the same could be > applied to more stuff. > > Mainly, the responses were positive (from both users and developers). > > Now, my proposal here is to update the required versions for > Frameworks 4 to reflect those of KDE Frameworks 5 / Qt 5. Now, I've > found different information for this - skelly says [2] the requirement > is GCC 4.6 while some other places state it is GCC 4.5, so I'm not > sure whether it was a typing error or not. > > > The other thing I'd like to discuss is whether we should have the same > requirements for libraries and applications. For example, while I > intend to require at least GCC 4.5 for the kactivities daemon (and > would like to require even 4.6, but will not) I intend to keep the > library compatible with old GCCs. > > As an additional argument for raising the bar, here are the GCC > versions in most modern distros (collected by other people, didn't > check): > - Debian - 4.7 (testing) > - openSuse 12.1 - 4.6 > - Kubuntu - 4.6 > - Fedora 16 - 4.6 > - Gentoo - 4.5 (stable) > - FreeBSD 10 - Clang 3.1 (*very* modern)
