On 13 November 2016 at 09:32, George N. White III wrote: | Unless intractable problems arise, wider use of gcc-6 outside of LTS releases | should be encouraged.
That is being done, and has been done for years. Ie gcc-7 just got into Debian unstable but BDR has been testing with it for a while now. Ditto with gcc-6 when it was bleeding fresh. There is nothing you can prescribe here. We are all caught between the dimwitted enterprises with RHEL versions built by the Romans deploying gcc-4.4, and these shiny newer things at the other side. All we can do is test the crap out of it, and we do! Services like rhub help. And of course developers willing to go the extra mile. And tools like Docker make it _trivial_ to keep another build environment, compiler version, compiler tooling (UBSAN !!) etc pp | is not alone in using gcc-6. If gcc-6 was a disaster, there would be bug We would have known a year or longer ago. It has been a default in Debian unstable and testing for a pretty long time. | https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html says there is support | for Yakkety Yak, but the sample sources.list lines lack an entry for yakkety. The rest of your post conflates these issue with what ill-educated users on derivative distros we do not (formally, lack of volunteers) support. There is Debian support on CRAN thanks to tireless effort by Johannes, and Ubuntu support thanks to Michael. If someone breaks his Mint box in despair by going out of distro it is really their problem. We can't fix all possible installations for all people. We aim to cover the main ones here, and I dare say we do pretty well --- but alarmist posts don't help. I know you mean well but some things needed clarification. For background, distros which know what they are doing have transition plans. See eg these from Debian https://wiki.debian.org/GCC6 https://wiki.debian.org/GCC5 (just for reference) Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
