[Nix-dev] Let's merge 'stdenv-updates-gcc47' into 'stdenv-updates'

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 21/01/13 11:49, Peter Simons wrote:

> there are some who would like to have gcc 4.7.x as default compiler in
> Nixpks (see issue #237 on Github). We have a working configuration in
> 'stdenv-updates-gcc47' that has proven quite stable. I'd like to suggest
> that we merge those updates into the normal 'stdenv-updates' branch, so
> that we can have them in 'master' at the next possible occasion.
> 
> Is anyone aware of reasons not to do this?

Well, GCC updates tend to break many packages, so this will delay a
stdenv-updates merge even further.  I would prefer merging stdenv-updates into
master first (to get the latest Glibc, and some other stuff) and do GCC 4.7
after that.

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