Re: [Xen-devel] Upping gcc requirement for x86

[George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 06:14:08PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:10 PM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 06:05:57PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > Hi all
>> >> >
>> >> > Seabios has bumped their requirement to 4.6 (released 7 years ago). We
>> >> > either need to bump our too or have a separate entry for seabios.
>> >>
>> >> RHEL / CentOS 6 are still supported, and they come with GCC 4.4.
>> >
>> > Where is this listed in xen.git? Supported in what sense?
>>
>> Sorry, I realized this was ambiguous just a minute ago.  I meant,
>> they're not EOL yet -- the distributions are still "active" as it
>> were.  (As opposed to, say, RHEL / CentOS 5, which is EOL.)
>>
>> I think it makes sense for us as a project to try to support
>> distributions which are still being given active support.
>
> Right. I think that makes sense, but does it actually work like that in
> practice?
>
> Existing Xen packages aren't really going to get a newer Xen, so that's
> out of the picture.
>
> What we try to achieve here is to let the users of these old distro able
> to build newer Xen themselves. But suppose you want to build a new
> system anyway, why stick with an old distro? Why not use a newer distro
> release instead?

Who knows why user do what they do? :-)  I'm sure there will be people
out there who do it; if it's not a terribly large effort, I think we
should try.  It builds good will.

 -George

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