[oi-dev] Transitioning from Sun Studio to gcc & clang/llvm

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com> [2011-05-23 17:22]:
> This is why the gcc version supplied will be fixed for a 5+ year period - I doubt we'll be changing the gcc version any time soon after doing this. When we do update to a newer GCC or to llvm/clang or another compiler, we can continue to supply the library, via a compat package.

Currently x.0  gcc releases seem to be supported for about two
years [1], that means gcc 4.5 will likely be supported until
around April 2012. Even if we adopt 4.6.0 now, we will be on our
own with it for three years. This is not so much a problem for
large Linux vendors like Redhat or SUSE which have inhouse
capacities/expertise to deal with any issues on their own but I
know it has been biting Projects like FreeBSD and given our
current manpower and capacities I don't see how we can deal with
that.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#timeline
-- 
Guido Berhoerster