I see value in adding a new name.

I see no value in a non-backwards compatible change to delete/rename a fully 
supported one.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rebecca Cran <rebe...@bsdio.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 10:49 AM
> To: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kin...@intel.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io; 
> Leif Lindholm <quic_llind...@quicinc.com>;
> pedro.falc...@gmail.com
> Cc: Gao, Liming <gaolim...@byosoft.com.cn>; Oliver Smith-Denny 
> <o...@smith-denny.com>; Jiang, Guomin
> <guomin.ji...@intel.com>; Lu, Xiaoyu1 <xiaoyu1...@intel.com>; Wang, Jian J 
> <jian.j.w...@intel.com>; Yao, Jiewen
> <jiewen....@intel.com>; Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianoc...@kernel.org>; Justen, 
> Jordan L <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>; Gerd
> Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>; Feng, Bob C <bob.c.f...@intel.com>; Andrew Fish 
> <af...@apple.com>
> Subject: Re: 回复: 回复: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 00/13] 
> BaseTools,CryptoPkg,MdePkg,OvmfPkg: Delete
> CLANG35,CLANG38,GCC48,GCC49, rename GCC5 to GCC, update CLANGDWARF, delete VS 
> 2008-2013, EBC
> 
> I've already added changes to the patch series to fix EDK2 CI to use the
> new name. Fortunately there aren't many places that need updated.
> 
> Downstream scripts should be trivial to change: just do a find/replace
> for GCC5.
> 
> 
> --
> Rebecca Cran
> 
> 
> On 4/4/23 11:45 AM, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> > Changing the toolchain tag name from GCC5 to GCC will break
> > EDK II CI and likely 100's of downstream developer/CI scripts.
> >
> > Can we keep GCC5 and add GCC that is identical to GCC5?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rebecca Cran
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 10:01 AM
> >> To: Leif Lindholm <quic_llind...@quicinc.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io; 
> >> pedro.falc...@gmail.com
> >> Cc: Gao, Liming <gaolim...@byosoft.com.cn>; Oliver Smith-Denny 
> >> <o...@smith-denny.com>; Jiang, Guomin
> >> <guomin.ji...@intel.com>; Lu, Xiaoyu1 <xiaoyu1...@intel.com>; Wang, Jian J 
> >> <jian.j.w...@intel.com>; Yao, Jiewen
> >> <jiewen....@intel.com>; Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianoc...@kernel.org>; 
> >> Justen, Jordan L <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>; Gerd
> >> Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>; Feng, Bob C <bob.c.f...@intel.com>; Andrew 
> >> Fish <af...@apple.com>; Kinney, Michael D
> >> <michael.d.kin...@intel.com>
> >> Subject: Re: 回复: 回复: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 00/13] 
> >> BaseTools,CryptoPkg,MdePkg,OvmfPkg: Delete
> >> CLANG35,CLANG38,GCC48,GCC49, rename GCC5 to GCC, update CLANGDWARF, delete 
> >> VS 2008-2013, EBC
> >>
> >>
> >> On 4/4/23 10:32 AM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 16:57:18 +0100, Pedro Falcato wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 4:49 PM Rebecca Cran <rebe...@bsdio.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Okay. I'll rework the patch series to only delete GCC48 and keep GCC49
> >>>>> and GCC5.
> >>>> Please rename them? There's no point in keeping their current names
> >>>> anyway. I guarantee you that most people are not really able to guess
> >>>> GCC49 to be the "non-LTO" flavor.
> >>>>
> >>>> And IMO Ard has already proved the value in non-LTO builds anyway, so
> >>>> yeah. GCC and GCCNOLTO please.
> >>> Agreed. I don't think there are any outstanding items that need
> >>> resolving.
> >>>
> >>> I'd be very happy to stop hearing "you need GCC 5 in order to build
> >>> edk2" misunderstandings.
> >> Thanks! As a new co-maintainer I was trying to be diplomatic, but I
> >> really don't see any reason to keep the existing names.
> >>
> >> I'll send out a v3 patch series with all the fixes I and others have
> >> identified.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rebecca Cran
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 
> >>


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