On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 21:32 -0600, Eduardo Silva wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Lauri Kasanen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > Currently the README only states that GCC is required, without any > > information on the version. > > > > This has resulted in ambiguity, with me wanting to use features only in > > newer GCC versions (4.0 and 4.1 in two cases [1]). I'm certain I won't be > > alone in that, and it may have happened in the past too. > > > > To solve this I'd request a debate to decide the minimum required version. > > Having that stated in the README, we could then depend on features found in > > that version. > > > > -- > > > > My own view is that GCC 4.2 is sufficient, being five years old (released > > on May 13, 2007). I admit not having much experience with platforms with > > only very old vendor-supplied toolchains; but I believe in many of those > > cases it's possible to build a newer GCC using the older one. > > > > I agree with decide the minimum GCC version, lets see what people says.
I'm *strongly* against this. We already impose a strong requirement with the kernel version and there is no good reason to limit gcc. Yes, it's true that most people will use updated versions but there are still important platforms that use older versions and that's no reason to exclude them - we only hurt ourselves. And hey... preprocessor checks are free! - Davidlohr > > regards, > _______________________________________________ Monkey mailing list [email protected] http://lists.monkey-project.com/listinfo/monkey
