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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-4.8 may be needed in stable for www-client/chromium-38.x
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:32:15
Message-Id: 53F0D904.2020306@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-4.8 may be needed in stable for www-client/chromium-38.x by "Michał Górny"
1 On 7/29/14 6:49 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Dnia 2014-07-23, o godz. 19:48:17
3 > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> napisał(a):
4 >
5 >> Looks like www-client/chromium is going to start using c++11 seriously
6 >> and require gcc-4.8+, see thread
7 >> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-packagers/fvJvPG8fa7I/iWPEsUxhKikJ>
8 >>
9 >> This is in the dev channel for now, but given the 6 weeks release cycle
10 >> it'll go to stable in about 3 months, and every time it's a security update.
11 >>
12 >> I'm trying to get Gentoo prepared now, and so what are our chances to
13 >> get gcc-4.8 to stable by that time?
14 >
15 > For the record: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516152
16 >
17 > I think 4.8 should be our current choice for stable since 4.7 is
18 > unsupported upstream and 4.7.4 (4.7.3 is stable now) has known unfixed
19 > bugs.
20
21 Sounds good, should we set a specific version as a stabilization target?
22
23 I'm successfully using 4.8.3 here.
24
25 Paweł

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