On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Ticket #6580 [1] is meant to have ratpoints build with GCC 3.4.x. The >> Sage build farm uses GCC >= 4.0.1 and ticket #7021 [2] has the updated >> package prereq-0.4 which checks that the target platform has GCC >= >> 4.0.1. With the updated prereq-0.4 spkg, it invalidates the GCC 3.4.x >> requirement of ratpoints. Do we really need/want to support GCC 3.4.x? >> > > Just to summarize some arguments... > > AGAINST supporting GCC 3.4.x: > > [ ] it increases the work by Minh and I > [ ] we do not have any computers with gcc 3.4 right now, so would > have to install gcc 3.4 on them. > [ ] we rarely get requests from people who want to build sage with > 3.4 (it happened once in the last two months) > [ ] the new configure script that David Kirkby wrote requires gcc 4.x > [ ] Robert Miller broke 3.4 support by introducing the ratpoints > spkg in May, and it seems nobody has been motivated to do anything > about this. > > FOR supporting 3.4.x: > > [ ] It probably would be easy at this point, since it just means > fixing ratpoints. > > [ ] This reminds me of when we dumped support for Cygwin in 2007. > In retrospect allowing that was a big mistake which I regret, because > it has made getting support for Cygwin back vastly more difficult (in > fact, so far impossible, since nobody has done it). > Has anyone tried to build for interix instead of cygwin? http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-interix
> [ ] There is a general principal that compiling code on a wider > range of compilers is generally a good thing. > > [ ] Some users have non-admin access only on boxes that only have > pre 4.x gcc's. > > -- William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
