[poppler] Moving up our "minimum" Linux base

[Albert Astals Cid]

El diumenge, 3 de febrer de 2019, a les 19:58:30 CET, Lewis G Rosenthal va escriure:
> Greetings...
> 
> On 02/03/19 11:48 am, William Bader wrote:
> > CentOS 7 has gcc 4.8.5, and I think that RHEL 8 is still in beta.
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* poppler <poppler-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Adam 
> > Reichold <adam.reichold at t-online.de>
> > *Sent:* Sunday, February 3, 2019 10:44 AM
> > *To:* poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
> > *Subject:* Re: [poppler] Moving up our "minimum" Linux base
> > Hello Albert,
> >
> > Am 03.02.19 um 14:39 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > > Right now our minimum Linux base as "guaranteed" by the gitlab CI is
> > > Ubuntu 14.04. Since that is going out of support even by Canonical
> > > this April I'd like to move that "minimum" to Ubuntu 16.04.
> > >
> > > Particularly that means we could start requiring features available in 
> > gcc 5.4
> > >
> > > Anyone against this?
> >
> > Didn't you mention some company-internal regression test runners that
> > would still tie us to GCC 4.9?
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > >   Albert
> >
> 
> On OS/2 (and ArcaOS, by extraction), we are generally using 4.9.2. We have 
> newer gcc builds available (7.3?), but this is the current standard for us. 
> A bump to a 5.4 requirement could be somewhat problematic. I've sent some 
> inquiries to those with more firsthand knowledge than I.

As mentioned before, if someone wants to make sure we don't break OS/2 they need to provide a CI system, otherwise it's just going to break at some point.

Cheers,
  Albert