F22 System Wide Change: GCC5

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:05:09PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Well, if we want to turn Fedora into a collection of obsolete software
> > rather than trying to lead progress, we don't have to update anything.
> 
> I think that's a bit of an over reaction, ultimately F-22 is due to
> branch on February 10th which is less than a month from now, the
> moment it branches gcc5 could land and people are then free to rebuild
> anything they like and gcc5 will be in the October release which is in
> all likely hood earlier than most other distros would adopt it anyway.

For a product with a rough schedule every 6 month and another quite time
based every 12 months that is significant.  It turns Fedora from being one
of the first distros to ship the new compilers to one of the last if not the
last one.

	Jakub