which compilers do we want to support with KDE 4 ?

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

up to KDE 3.5 we still supported gcc 2.95, AFAIK this was dropped for KDE 4.

Now I have major problems compiling kdelibs/kxmlcore/ using gcc 3.2.3, IOW gcc 
3.2.3 isn't able to compile HashMap/HashTable/HashMapPtrSpec without  bigger 
changes. I already got a bit further but now I get an internal compiler 
error.
AFAIK this is code from Apple, which use gcc >= 4.0.
Do we want to support gcc < 3.4 for KDE 4 ?

I think we should, otherwise we will loose a lot of developer time (updating 
g++ means updating all C++ libs on the system, AFAIK), including mine.

Is gcc 3.3 able to compile kdelibs/kxmlcore ?
Is gcc 3.3 ABI compatible to gcc 3.2 ?
What about gcc 3.0 and gcc 3.1 ?

But I am afraid I am not able to get kxmlcore compiling with gcc 3.2.3, 
somebody who knows more about this code and about templates should have a 
look or give me some assistence.

Bye
Alex

P.S. this is currently the reason why there is no progress with the cmake 
build of kdelibs
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