Compatibility is dead

[Thomas Voß]

Hey Daniel,

the one concern I have with maintaining gcc 4.7 compatibility are the
numerous bugs that trigger internal compiler errors quite frequently.
Those issues are mostly gone with 4.8 and I would want to avoid us
working around compiler bugs (as opposed to missing C++11 features).

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Daniel van Vugt
<daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:
> My main desktop is indeed raring. However it is significantly outnumbered by
> the number of saucy machines I have. I like raring because it is my fastest
> build machine by far. So keeps me more productive.
>

Fair point, why not setup a saucy chroot on the machine? Works
perfectly fine for me. Or a gcc 4.8 from the toolchain ppa's on
launchpad and leveraging the compute power with the help of distcc?

> I'm not going to try to justify compiler compatibility any more other than
> saying it's a good thing for any project.

While I do agree in general, I'm opposed to investing too much time
working around gcc 4.7 bugs.

Thanks,

  Thomas

>
> The gmock issues just look like CMake magic. So fixable, but not a priority.
>
>

>
> On 16/07/13 01:37, Oliver Ries wrote:
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> thanks for pointing this out. Can you help me understand the impact a
>> bit better?
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Daniel van Vugt
>> <daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com <mailto:daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     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...
>>
>>
>> Looking at your initial mail, the main motivator for offering to support
>> Raring was that your own development environment is not on saucy yet
>> (though it should;). From this mail I take that gcc 4.8 and gmock test
>> are not available on R but became a requirement.
>>
>> Is there any other benefit that we can think of that is currently being
>> impacted by this incompatibility with R?
>>
>> thx
>> Olli
>
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