On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 4:14 PM Matthias Koeppe <matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 4:23:32 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >> >> On Fri, 24 Sep 2021, 02:12 Matthias Koeppe, <matthia...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I repeat my strong objections to the proposed change -- which does not >>> solve any problems and only creates new ones. >>> >>> 2. We used the gcc spkg as recently as this Spring, for the 9.3 release, >>> in order to support Fedora 34, which had just switched to gcc 11. No other >>> solution was proposed or feasible at the time because several of our >>> standard packages were not ready for this compiler, and a Sage release was >>> already long overdue. >>> >> >> nobody pushes us into not skipping one particular version. >> I cannot imagine e.g. cpython or scipy delaying a release in such a >> situation. >> Besides, building gcc from source is not too hard >> with a modern C compiler available. >> > > Bizarre that you think that it's easy for users to build gcc from source > but it's somehow hard for us to maintain the package that builds gcc from > source. > > Maintaining is a task. Non-maintaining is no task to worry about. What's bizarre about this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/01d0a820-7967-45e8-bd72-f75e3782ebaen%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/01d0a820-7967-45e8-bd72-f75e3782ebaen%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq0t3%3DWNU_E4ryk0BJvRdqa7qca0CuFZdLzsnSGSmpVz7w%40mail.gmail.com.
