On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Germano Massullo <germano.massu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il 28/03/2017 14:04, Mark Feit ha scritto: >> On 03/28/2017 04:57 AM, Roman Lebedev wrote: >>> I want to bump gcc requirement up to GCC-5 soon, >>> >>> Thus, subj. >>> If you do, please speak up now. >>> PS: using outdated distro version is not an excuse. >> >> I'm not even a bit player in this but... >> >> This will put off anybody using EL7 or its derivatives because there >> are ABI and library changes and no easy way to get GCC 5 installed >> using the "usual" repositories (i.e., Base and EPEL). Fedora has >> already made the jump, but those changes aren't going to be in the >> stable distro picture until EL8 happens. Whether that makes EL7 >> outdated would, of course, be up for discussion. Thank you for this feedback.
>> If EL8 drags out beyond production DT having the GCC 5 requirement, EL >> users running the latest available That is actually the very important point - running git master of some software on supported Enterprise distribution. Does anyone here actually do that? Otherwise, the version bump would only be of an importance for the new software versions, and since EL does not seem to get any upgrades, i think it does not matter at all. New distro version will contain newer gcc, and will be able to update darktable. That being said, dt is packaged for EL, right? Else this is all irrelevant. >> won't have a way to use it other >> than a VM with a distro that supports it. I've done that a couple of >> times out of necessity, but I/O is sluggish enough that I'd prefer not >> to. So right now the two 'blockers' to consider is RHEL7 and CentOS7 >> --Mark Roman. >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> >> darktable developer mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> >> > As darktable maintainer for Fedora EPEL 7 (also known as EL7)[1] the > repository that provides extra packages for CentOS / RHEL / Scientific > Linux, I can say that the actual available GCC version is 4.8.5 > > [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
