On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 12:11 +0100, Jan Kurik wrote: > = System Wide Change: GCC8 = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC8 > > Change owner(s): > * Jakub Jelínek <jakub AT redhat DOT com> > > Switch GCC in Fedora 28 to 8.x.y, rebuild all packages with it, or > optionally rebuild just some packages with it and rebuild all packages > only in Fedora 29. > > > == Detailed Description == > GCC 8 is currently in stage3, will move to stage4 on January 14th, in > prerelease state with only regression bugfixes and documentation fixes > allowed. The release will happen probably in the middle of April. We > are working on scratch gcc rpms and will perform a test mass rebuild. The timing on this looks a bit awkward when compared with the current schedule, which has the Beta going out in March and Final early in May: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/Schedule That would appear to mean we'd have to do a mass rebuild with a pre- release GCC, or do a mass rebuild between Beta and Final, or suddenly introduce a new compiler post-Beta, potentially meaning that we need to rebuild something to fix a blocker bug quite late in the release and discover that the new GCC which has suddenly appeared causes problems with building it. None of those sound like great options to me. Is there significant enough benefit from the new GCC to outweigh all these potential negative impacts to it going stable between our Beta and Final releases? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
