dejagnu version update?

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

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 don’t know of any reason to not update and just require 1.5 at
>this point.  I’m not a fan of feature chasing dejagnu, but an update
>every 2-4 years isn’t unreasonable.
>
>So, let’s do it this way…  Any serious and compelling reason to not
>update to 1.5?  If none, let’s 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,