On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:39:41AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
The timing on this looks a bit awkward when compared with the
current
schedule, which has the Beta going out in March and Final early in May:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/Schedule
That would appear to mean we'd have to do a mass rebuild with a pre-
release GCC, or do a mass rebuild between Beta and Final, or suddenly
introduce a new compiler post-Beta, potentially meaning that we need to
rebuild something to fix a blocker bug quite late in the release and
discover that the new GCC which has suddenly appeared causes problems
with building it. None of those sound like great options to me.
Mass rebuild with a prerelease version of the compiler, like every year at
least in the past 10 years in Fedora.
Is there significant enough benefit from the new GCC to outweigh all
these potential negative impacts to it going stable between our Beta
and Final releases?
Yes.
Jakub