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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: C++11 (abridged version)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1iuu9i0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4300d24a-8711-c5de-79ce-7c530162288c@redhat.com> (message from	Pedro Alves on Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:07:58 +0100)

> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:07:58 +0100
> 
> On #4 (policy for newer standard versions), as I've been saying many
> times in the past week, I think that what matters is whether there's
> reasonably widespread compiler availability, meaning the latest stable
> releases of distributions include a compiler for the standard, or it's
> easy to get one by installing some optional package.  If reasonably
> available, then we should switch, and take advantage of the great work
> our compiler and standards friends have been doing.

IMO, this is too vague for a policy.  I proposed a much more
quantitative criterion, one that doesn't run the risk of triggering
long disputes with no clear-cut ways of making a decision.  I'm okay
with other criteria, as long as they are clear, easily applied, and
don't require subjective interpretation.

My opinion on other items was already voiced here.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-20 17:08 Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 18:10 ` Luis Machado
2016-10-20 18:24   ` Tom Tromey
2016-10-20 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-20 19:09   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 19:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 19:41     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 19:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-28 17:26         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 19:38 ` Yao Qi
2016-10-20 19:45   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-25 20:29 ` Keith Seitz
2016-10-26  0:41   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-27  0:04 ` Kevin Buettner
2016-10-27 19:24 ` Pedro Alves

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