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

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Huxley, Nick: IT (NYK) schrieb:
> 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.

Using binary incompatible compilers on one machine is a major pain. You 
have to make sure that each and every C++ library you want to use is 
compiled with the same compiler. So abandoning the compiler used to 
compile nearly any other library present on the system is not an easy 
choice.

I simply wanted to say that nowadays g++-3.x-only systems are 
commonplace. Drop support for 2.9x, but don't tell people that switching 
to a binary incompatible compiler is a piece of cake.

   Christof