On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:06:27PM +0200, Brian Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > > > I strongly oppose to any requirement that would make ESR+2 (ESR31) > > not build on the current Debian stable (gcc 4.7) and make ESR+1 > > (ESR24) not build on the old Debian stable (gcc 4.4). We're not > > going to change the requirements for the latter. And b2g still > > requires gcc 4.4 (with c++11) support anyways. Until they switch to > > the same toolchain as android, which is 4.7. > > > > Why are you so opposed? I feel like I can give a lot of good reasons > why such constraints are a net loss for us, but I am not sure what is > driving the imposition of such constraints on us.
Because Mozilla is not the only entity that builds and distributes Gecko-derived products, including Firefox, and that we can't demand everyone to be using the latest shiny compiler. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
