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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 19:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zilyssjk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d698ef7-caa8-7130-4413-79c6dcb85f22@redhat.com> (message from	Pedro Alves on Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:41:39 +0100)

> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:41:39 +0100
> 
> Here's a straw man proposal for the policy text:
> 
> When is GDB going to start requiring C++NN ?
> 
> Our general policy is to wait until the oldest compiler which
> supports C++NN is at least 3 years old.
> 
> Rationale: We want to ensure reasonably widespread compiler availability,
> to lower barrier of entry to GDB contributions, and to make it easy for users
> to easily build new GDB on currently supported stable distributions themselves.
> 3 years should be sufficient for latest stable releases of distributions to
> include a compiler for the standard, and/or for new compilers to appear as
> easily installable optional packages.  Requiring everyone to build a compiler
> first before building GDB, which would happen if we required a too-new compiler,
> would cause too much inconvenience.
> 
> WDYT?

Fine with me, thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20 19:57 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
2016-10-20 19:09   ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 19:41     ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 19:57       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-28 17:26         ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 19:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
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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