On 12/10/19 12:22 PM, Randy MacLeod wrote:
In the YP technical meeting today, Richard suggested that we stop
support for CentOS-7. Is there any objection to doing so
before 3.1-M2?
CentOS-7 is just too old and there is significant work to support it.
Richard said that many if not most of the package upgrades that he
deals with fail for CentOS-7 and he has to either fix them himself
or get the person who submitted the work to do so. Newer distributions
are not nearly so problematic.
While the CentOS-7 distro is still a supported by it's provider,
the toolchain is very old:
- gcc-4.8
- glibc-2.17
- binutils-2.27
One could add a newer toolchain to the buildtools tarball to address
some of the CentOS-7 support problems. So far, we have only use
the host's toolchain and it seems best to continue to do so.
Release and support dates for CentOS-6,7,8 are here:
https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product
Note that 'Full Updates' or new hardware support for
CentOS-7 stops in Q3 2020.
When we talking about moving to C++11 on the toolchain side for gcc,
generally
the problem was older in support vendor distributions. If CentOS 7 is
going out
of support soon its a good idea. Otherwise for now just add a tarball
until then
would be my idea.
Cheers,
Nick
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