On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 10:37:21AM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Regarding "one extreme to the other", I suspect that in spite of my > arguments, which would seem to justify an extreme, the actual thing I > suggested is a bit more moderate: let's support the latest 2 or 3 gccs > at the time of kernel release. If we choose 3, that's roughly 3 years of > gccs, right? 3 years seems like a fairly long amount of time. I was looking at your suggestion there - as a Debian user that feels a touch enthusiastic (though practically probably not actually a problem) since it's not too far off the release cadence, current Debian is at GCC 10 and we're not due for another release till sometime next year which will be right on the three years. There does also seem to be a contingent of people running enterprise distros managed by an IT department or whatever who may take a while to get round to pushing out new versions so for example might still for example be running Ubuntu 20.04 rather than 22.04 (never mind the people I know are sitting on 18.04 but that's another thing). If we went for three years extreme would probably be an overstatment but it's definitely an active push.
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