On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:40 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: >> I guess our systems people or Linux package developers are not good at >> keeping up to date. > > Well, real people use old compilers. Elemental requires cutting-edge > compilers, so we just need to remember to only attempt to build it on > machines with the latest compilers. I personally see no reason to ever > use old compilers, but some don't think that way. Apple shipped gcc-4.2 > for nearly six years after it was released Yes but it had a damn good reason! > and RedHat supports systems > for longer than that. Yes but it has a damn good reason > Microsoft quit maintaining their C compiler in > the 1990s, but still ships it. And it has a damn good reason And the reason is always in some way related to $
