+1

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Andrew Wilkins <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:08 PM, David Cheney 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is a proposal that we raise the minimum Go spec from Go 1.1 to Go
>> 1.2.
>>
>> Motivation:
>>
>> * Now that T is out, we have to support Juju on two series (Precise
>> and Trusty[1]) with two compilers, gc and gccgo.
>> * gccgo-4.9, which is version we using in trusty, supports the Go 1.2 spec
>> * gc-1.1.2 which is available in a ppa for precise, obviously supports Go
>> 1.1
>> * gc-1.2.1 is the shipping compiler on Trusty, it supports Go 1.2
>>
>> So now we have three compilers, two versions of gc, and one of gccgo.
>>
>> We are in the situation where code written for gccgo under T on ppc64
>> or armv8 will not pass the bot running Go 1.1.1.
>>
>> For this reason I would like to reduce this matrix.
>>
>> Recommendation:
>>
>> * Get the trusty compiler into a backport ppa for precise[1]
>> * Upgrade the bot to use that compiler, raising the minimum compiler
>> spec to 1.2 across the board
>>
>
> SGTM. The bot will be changing soon to a Jenkins lander; seems like an
> opportune time for making the change.
>
>
>> Thoughts / Discussion / Spoiled fruit ?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> [1] I am ignoring the intermediate, non LTS series', as there are no
>> charms for them, nor do CTS offer support for them. If this is
>> unacceptable, anything which applies to Precise wrt. backports, also
>> applies to Q, R and S.
>>
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