On 23/06/17 19:55, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Yusuke SUZUKI <utatane....@gmail.com> > wrote: >> It's middle of 2017! And Debian stable is released. >> >> We discussed a bit about updating GCC and MSVC in [1]. >> Based on the comment from JF[1], I think start of July would be very >> nice timing to update our GCC version. >> >> If we can update our compiler baselines including MSVC, it would be >> very nice to us because it means full C++14 support at least. >> >> [1]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173582 >> [2]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173582#c10 >> >> Regards, >> Yusuke Suzuki > > I believe this is now fine for both WebKitGTK+ and WPE. We might need to > upgrade a bot or something, but we can surely figure that out. My > understanding is that Carlos Lopez has already upgraded most of the bots. > > Since I've heard no objections since proposing this months ago, I have > just now updated the WebKitGTK+ dependency policy [1] to change it to > apply only to runtime dependencies and not to the build toolchain. > > Michael > > [1] https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy
I think the default build toolchain should be supported also, at least without the requirement of "one year after the release". I propose this change to the policy over yours: - This policy applies to runtime dependencies to ensure smooth updates for users. - It does not apply to the build toolchain. - A compiler other than the default compiler in an otherwise-supported distribution may be required to build. + This policy applies to the runtime dependencies to ensure smooth updates for users. + The requirement of "one year after the release" does not apply to the default toolchain. + On that extra year of support a compiler other than the default one in an otherwise-supported distribution may be required to build. I think is important to not require a too much new version of the default toolchain (GCC).
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