[OE-core] Future of GCC

[akuster808]

On 07/12/2016 02:24 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 12 July 2016 at 22:14, akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Personally I was thinking that gcc 5.x and 6.x should stay in oe-core for
>>> this cycle, and then drop 5.x after the release.
>>
>>
>> Wouldn't that be dropped iff GCC 7.0 is release? or are you saying we
>> should only have one GCC version?
>>
> 
> Well, depends on the adoption and migration problems.  I don't think we
> should carry three versions,

I agree. 3 is too many.

 and ideally one, but two is acceptable to ease
> migration.

One makes Stable maintenance less costly in time.

- armin
> 


> Ross
>