Compiler version

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 27 de juny de 2012, a les 23:28:30, Ivan Čukić va escriure:
> Hi all,

Hi

> 
> I've tested the waters some time ago [1] what would people say if we
> started asking for more modern compilers. 

Can you explain why you need a more modern version, I see a good analysis of 
what the current situation regarding compiler availability but i fail to see 
why we need a newer compiler.

Cheers,
  Albert

> I've stated there I'll start
> the discussion on k-c-d once we branch out 4.9, so I'm doing as
> promised. The post was only about kactivities, but the same could be
> applied to more stuff.
> 
> Mainly, the responses were positive (from both users and developers).
> 
> Now, my proposal here is to update the required versions for
> Frameworks 4 to reflect those of KDE Frameworks 5 / Qt 5. Now, I've
> found different information for this - skelly says [2] the requirement
> is GCC 4.6 while some other places state it is GCC 4.5, so I'm not
> sure whether it was a typing error or not.
> 
> 
> The other thing I'd like to discuss is whether we should have the same
> requirements for libraries and applications. For example, while I
> intend to require at least GCC 4.5 for the kactivities daemon (and
> would like to require even 4.6, but will not) I intend to keep the
> library compatible with old GCCs.
> 
> As an additional argument for raising the bar, here are the GCC
> versions in most modern distros (collected by other people, didn't
> check):
> - Debian - 4.7 (testing)
> - openSuse 12.1 - 4.6
> - Kubuntu - 4.6
> - Fedora 16 - 4.6
> - Gentoo - 4.5 (stable)
> - FreeBSD 10 - Clang 3.1 (*very* modern)