On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 4:23:32 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2021, 02:12 Matthias Koeppe, <matthia...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I repeat my strong objections to the proposed change -- which does not >> solve any problems and only creates new ones. >> >> 2. We used the gcc spkg as recently as this Spring, for the 9.3 release, >> in order to support Fedora 34, which had just switched to gcc 11. No other >> solution was proposed or feasible at the time because several of our >> standard packages were not ready for this compiler, and a Sage release was >> already long overdue. >> > > nobody pushes us into not skipping one particular version. > I cannot imagine e.g. cpython or scipy delaying a release in such a > situation. > Besides, building gcc from source is not too hard > with a modern C compiler available. >
Bizarre that you think that it's easy for users to build gcc from source but it's somehow hard for us to maintain the package that builds gcc from source. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/01d0a820-7967-45e8-bd72-f75e3782ebaen%40googlegroups.com.
