Re: [PATCH 1/2] README: bump minimum required clang/llvm version

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 01:11:55PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 29.02.2024 10:55, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > --- a/README
> > +++ b/README
> > @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ provided by your OS distributor:
> >          - GCC 4.1.2_20070115 or later
> >          - GNU Binutils 2.16.91.0.5 or later
> >          or
> > -        - Clang/LLVM 3.5 or later
> > +        - Clang/LLVM 14.0.0 or later
> 
> Wow, that's a big step. I'm build-testing with Clang7 on one system and
> with Clang5 on another (and the latter more frequently than the former).
> If any real dependency on this new a version (about 3 years old?) was
> introduced, I would then no longer be able to locally test any Clang
> builds (and hence the risk would again increase that I introduce issues
> that affect just Clang builds).

Would it be possible for you to update to a newer version?  I see both
the OpenSUSE containers in Gitlab have newer versions of Clang.

The reasoning for selecting such versions is in the commit message, I
simply see no point in maintaining support for older Clang versions if
there's no-one that actually runs such builds.  Just listing them as
supported for being able to output a binary that's never run tested is
not helpful.

Thanks, Roger.