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

[Tomas Mraz]

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.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
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