Proposed F19 Feature: GCC48 - switch GCC in Fedora 19 to 4.8.x, rebuild all packages with it

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 08:21:24PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 14:15 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: 
> > > GCC 4.8.0 is going to be released in mid March to mid April and is currently 
> > > in regression bugfix only mode. I've performed a test mass rebuild on x86_64 
> > 
> > Looking at the schedule.... Wouldn't it be better to do the mass rebuild in
> > Rawhide before the branch?
> > 
> > If we're really looking at a second-half-of-May final release, that means
> > beta testing ends the beginning of May, which possibly puts the window for
> > the rebuild _after_ the beta release (let alone before the branch).
> > 
> > If we're going to have a short F19 cycle, maybe this should be accepted now
> > for F20 and happen in Rawhide after the branch. Or, if the F19 cycle is to
> > be longer, maybe that's not an issue.
> > 
> > Unless we're really confident that this won't cause problems.
> 
> I'd say that if FESCo accepts this feature for F19, it implicates making
> the F19 schedule long enough to accommodate the rebuild before
> branching.

If this is decided upon soon, the gcc packages could be ready for a mass
rebuild around end of January or even slightly earlier.
The package is in git right now, but so far built just as scratch builds.

	Jakub