Rethinking Fedora's compiler policy
Rethinking Fedora's compiler policy
[Distributions] Posted Apr 28, 2021 15:52 UTC (Wed) by corbet
Now that the Fedora 34 release is out the door, the Fedora project is turning its attention to Fedora 35, which is currently scheduled for release on October 26. One of the changes under consideration for Fedora 35 is this proposal allowing maintainers to choose whether to build their packages with GCC or Clang. This policy change may give maintainers some welcome flexibility, but it has not proved entirely popular in the Fedora community.