On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:39:41AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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. Mass rebuild with a prerelease version of the compiler, like every year at least in the past 10 years in Fedora. > 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? Yes. Jakub _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
