On 07/09/2018 11:15 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:56:19PM +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 at 18:37, Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net> wrote:
> [..]
>> There are a significant (but unknown number) of packages in Fedora that
>> are probably only currently built and tested upstream with GCC
>> compilers. Putting a virtual requires in the spec, before testing them
>> with alternate compilers, is incorrect.
>
> It is to late now.
> Igor wrote "I'm going to do this tomorrow." but what was announced
> that will start tomorrow already started (ROTFL).
>
> PS. It is second time when Mr. Gnatenko started doing things before
> finishing the discussion.
> I can only repeat .. congratulation.
To be fair, his email was sent Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 20:46:26 +0200.
And today is 9th of July, so it is tomorrow.
But yeah, doing the changes in the middle of a discussion… that's not
excellent.
This is an approved by FESCo Fedora 29 change that needs to be done
before the mass rebuild, which is scheduled for the 11th (2 days from now).
2018-07-11 Mass Rebuild
( see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/29/Schedule )
So, really the discussion time for this would have been best in March
when the change was discussed on list).
I don't see any chance at all that some other compiler will be default
in Fedora anytime soon. Fedora has a close and productive relationship
with gcc which I hope will continue. In the event years down the road
something changes, we can always just change the BuildRequires: gcc to
whatever we are switching to, or have that provide gcc or any other
number of things.
kevin