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Re: dejagnu version update?
- From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep dot dot dot nop at gmail dot com>
- To: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>,Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat dot com>,gcc-patches List <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>,GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:23:27 +0200
- Subject: Re: dejagnu version update?
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On September 15, 2015 7:39:39 PM GMT+02:00, Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net> wrote:
>On Sep 14, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe GCC-6 can bump the required
>>> dejagnu version to allow for getting rid of all these superfluous
>>> load_gcc_lib? *blink* :)
>> I'd support that as a direction.
>>
>> Certainly dropping the 2001 version from our website in favor of 1.5
>(which is what I'm using anyway) would be a step forward.
>
>So, even ubuntu LTS is 1.5 now. No harm in upgrading the website to
>1.5. I donât know of any reason to not update and just require 1.5 at
>this point. Iâm not a fan of feature chasing dejagnu, but an update
>every 2-4 years isnât unreasonable.
>
>So, letâs do it this wayâ Any serious and compelling reason to not
>update to 1.5? If none, letâs update to 1.5 in another week or two, if
>no serious and compelling reasons not to.
>
>My general plan is, slow cycle updates on dejagnu, maybe every 2 years.
>LTS style releases should have the version in it before the requirement
>is updated. I take this approach as I think this should be the maximal
>change rate of things like make, gcc, g++, ld, if possible.
Yea, although this means that 1.5.3 (a Version with the libdirs tweak) being just 5 months old will have to wait another bump, I fear. For my part going to plain 1.5 is useless WRT the load_lib situation. I see no value in conditionalizing simplified libdir handling on a lucky user with recentish stuff so i'm just waiting another 2 or 4 years for this very minor cleanup.
Cheers,