Compatibility is dead
Daniel van Vugt
daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com
Mon Jul 15 03:31:14 UTC 2013
It finally happened. lp:mir now depends on C++11 features and external
packages (google-mock) too heavily to be buildable on raring any more.
Essentially the main problem is that raring uses gcc-4.7 and Mir's code
depends on more complete C++11 features that only work in gcc-4.8. The
other issue is that Mir now depends on saucy-specific hacks in the
google-mock package, which can't be found elsewhere.
This is a little disappointing. If anyone would like to take on the
project of making the Mir source more backward compatible, then feel
free. But maintaining compatibility with raring has now taken up too
much of my time...
- Daniel
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