Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0

Michal Piotrowski
2007-08-22T08:42:29Z

Hi,

On 22/08/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:
>
> On Aug 22 2007 10:08, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:57:04AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >>
> >> On Aug 21 2007 23:41, Oliver Pinter wrote:
> >> >I think it's bad idea, when removing support for gcc3.x, while some
> >> >people using debian 3.1 at now and under debian 3.1 the default
> >> >comiler is 3.3.5, when I good know or not!?
> >>
> >> They always lag behind.
> >
> >Yes! Probably that's why they are so darn good!
>
> ISTR that even Ubuntu overtook Debian... what about Debian 4.x?

They are using gcc 4.1.1 as default
http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/gcc

Anyway, IMO dropping support for a compiler just because of warnings
it is a bad thing.

Regards,
Michal

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