RE: [gtkmm] Re: [sigc] Abandoning gcc 2.9*?

["Huxley, Nick: IT (NYK)" <Nick Huxley barclayscapital com>]

http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html

Says it all really. 2.9 is 5 years old and sucks for C++. It's not that
hard to install two gcc's on one machine for all those *BSD users who
want to build gtkmm. At the end of the day gtkmm uses templates and you
need a compiler that supports them properly.

gcc 3.2 is over 18 months old and it's free. If people are developing
they should know enough to install a compiler and all modern Linuces
come with at leat gcc 3.2.

Do we now the oldest version of gcc 3.x that will compile libsigc++?

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: gtkmm-list-admin gnome org [mailto:gtkmm-list-admin gnome org] On
Behalf Of Christof Petig
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 8:57 AM
To: Murray Cumming Comneon com
Cc: gtkmm-list gnome org; libsigc-list gnome org
Subject: [gtkmm] Re: [sigc] Abandoning gcc 2.9*?


Murray Cumming Comneon com schrieb:
> I'll ask this again, using the correct version number:
> 
> Libsigc++ 2 does not build with gcc 2.95 (or even gcc <3.2). So if we 
> Libsigc++ use it
> in gtkmm 2.4, gtkmm will also not be able to use gcc 2.9*.

Go for it, even the 'official' _woody_backport_ of gtkmm2 already uses 
gcc 3.0. [Woody is what I would call a dinosaur system for gtk2] And 
2.9x was never an option for me ever since I encountered the 
dynamic_cast bug (see SIGSEGV with glademm, gtk2 and gcc 2.95) about one

year ago.

    Christof

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