On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:34 AM Yousong Zhou <yszhou4t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 13:11, Petr Štetiar <yn...@true.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Paul Spooren <m...@aparcar.org> [2020-12-15 16:26:14]:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I've seen two patches for version raises of build requirements and would
> > > like to know if we should merge them before or after 20.x.
> > >
> > > make: 3.81.x -> 4.1.x
> > > gcc: 4.8 -> 6.x
> > >
> > > I'm in favor to merge both *before* the branch.
> >
> > it would probably help to know the reason as well. "I'm in favor" might not 
> > be
> > enough in this almost pre-release stage.
> >
> > AFAIK that Make version bump fixes an issue with possibly few stray ANSI 
> > color
> > escapes (workaround is to use NO_COLOR=1 in this case) and \r characters in 
> > the
> > log file. Is it really that big issue to do this last minute version bump?
> >
> > FYI that gcc6+ one was NACKed[1] by Yousong and I'm fine with that for 20.12
> > release. I plan to rebase/resend that patch once 20.12 is branched.
> >
> > 1. 
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/20191112081625.27695-1-yn...@true.cz/#2301662
> >
>
> I still hold the belief that a system such as CentOS could deserve a
> work-out-of-the-box experience ;)  But now that CentOS like the old
> day is not an option anymore in the future, I say we move on in the
> next release.
Assuming you're referring to the CentOS Stream announcement, I don't
see how that's relevant.

CentOS 7 is supported until 2024.
>
> Regards,
>                 yousong
>
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