On 06/08/2013 13:35, Daniel James wrote:
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, at 01:14 PM, Joel Falcou wrote:
Intel is now 12 and gcc is 4.x, coudln't we reach a bit further on those ? ICC before 8 is rather obnoxious to work with and so is gcc pre 4.x
Possibly, that's why I mentioned that we might remove support from some later versions as well. I don't really know anything about old versions of Intel, but I would be surprised if anyone is using a version earlier than 8. I think there might still be a few Visual C++ 7.1 users and gcc 3.4 users (using mingw?).
Visual 7 and gcc 3.4 soudns reasonable. Isn't Mingw now uptodate to 4.6 or 7 ?
At least there was last year, maybe they'll have managed to upgrade by now. Rather than removing support for those compilers immediately, it might be better to go through some kind of deprecation process (e.g. warnings when compiling, mentions in release notes).
Definitively.