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On 19/01/16 19:58, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> I made branch home/bkerin/require_C99 a while ago and posted about it
> Posting patches is not the same as checking with all the distros we
> want to be in, and OSs we want to build for, and users we want to
> support, and see if requiring C99 would be a problem for any of them,
> then getting the maintainers to agree that it's a reasonable
> requirement, then officially making it a requirement.
>
> This process may or may not be easy, but it hasn't been done.
>
> We typically want to support more than just the most recent version of
> anything; usually a couple semi-major versions back.  Especially since
> we tend to have users and developers with old software (including me).
For what it's worth I'm going to be responsible for packaging versions
1.8-> for gentoo, and QA procedures will dictate proper compiling and
reliability checks. Since gentoo is using gcc4.9 I see no issues with
going C99. I think even debian is caught up to gcc4.8 these days, there
is no reason to get stuck in the mire, as long as compatibility is
maintained, we should be keeping up with current code practice (think
guile v2 vs v1) rather than hanging back and finding you can't build
something because your dependencies/code libraries/options are too old.