[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14

[roland at logikalsolutions.com]

Quoting Filip Piechocki <fpiechocki at gmail.com>:

> I don't understand it. This new compiler is needed to build QtC on Ubuntu
> 14.04. You said, that you can have whatever editor you want, but cannot use
> anything that changes the product. But wait, this new GCC will be used to
> build the QtC, not the product. Or maybe Ubuntu 14.04 system image is your
> product? Or am I missing something here...
>
> Filip
Quoting Filip Piechocki <fpiechocki at gmail.com>:
>>>
>> Yes, that would increase your personal effort to get this Creator from 2018
>> on Ubuntu 14.04 working, but that effort is dwarfed by the effort you spent
>> on your messages here, so that hardly can be the limiting factor in the
>> game.
>>
>> Andre'

Andre',

This is not about effort or great need. I'm shocked so many people  
cannot fathom working in an environment where you are not allowed to  
change out the C/C++ compiler willy-nilly. Gospel truth, I completed  
what I needed to do on 14.04 for the next weeks. I used Sublime Text 3  
like I said I would. Other than when I'm at home working on my own  
stuff, over the course of my 30+ years in IT, I do not recall being in  
a work environment where I was allowed to change the C/C++ compiler  
out at will. Even if it is/was/might be allowed here, changing the  
compiler out just to get an editor would be an extreme risk. It could  
potentially undo tons of work which has already went into  
creating/testing the Debian and ISO construction worlds as well as the  
multi-platform deployment testing.

Filip,

Unknown. If that PPA was/is a backport which installs a new compiler  
over the top of the existing system compiler, then yeah, the wheels  
are off the cart. If that PPA installs off in some obscure corner  
where QtCreator wouldn't automagically find it while configuring kits  
and projects, __maybe__ it's okay. Assuming nothing got put into a  
standard search path where it accidentally got picked up.

Be off-line for a bit. Other team has release going live tomorrow  
morning then my stuff starts churning through the system.
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