On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 16:39 +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > Another idea is: (c) Drop the "one year after the release" > requirement. > Which means that we could update to minimum GCC version to 5.3 (the > one > in last Ubuntu LTS) when Debian 9 is released (which hopefully is > expected to happen around the middle of 2017). > > A date that I guess will be near enough to when VS2017 is released. > > This will mean that instead of supporting up to 3-year old > dependencies > we will only support up to 2-year old ones. > I'm not particular enthusiast about this, but I'm ready to understand > that supporting 3-year old dependencies is not realistic on a project > like WebKit.
I think it is totally realistic to support 3-year old dependencies. There's absolutely no reason we cannot do it if we want to. The latest compiler features are nice-to-haves, not requirements. But I agree that this would be a good solution if we want to bump the GCC requirement sooner. As you pointed out, it would allow us to do that this summer rather than next summer. Michael _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
