On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 11:00:00PM +0100, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2021, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> 
> >- first slide of "distribution landscape" is nonsense,
> >with everybody stuck with el7 for another 3 years and
> >bye, bye, c++14, c++17, c++20.
> 
> Is Red Hat Developer Toolset 10
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_documentation_en-2Dus_red-5Fhat-5Fdeveloper-5Ftoolset_10_html_10.0-5Frelease-5Fnotes_dts10.0-5Frelease-23Changes-5Fin-5FDTS&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=Chv7ZrLnQII3dvv1o48KTg7YAxT9SNUUCkOkflNOCd4&s=bZUlWtCI03IJ95QWY-_DTkmqMdwOzXq8PVBkiR1dZLM&e=
> not an option ?
> 
> (OK, C++20 support in g++ 10.2.1 is "experimental).
> 

And so what?

I can take SL-6 and graft modern versions of all important packages,
one does not even need the devtoolset, GCC is easy to build from sources.

But this is no longer "SL-6", it is "SL-6-KO1", at best.

Same thing, "CentOS-7 with devtoolset, php from webtatic, python from pip, kernel from ELREPO, etc" is not CentOS-7.

It is an irreproducible Franken-monster-bashed-together-locally thing.

Is this the new standard, the best way to go, "the new thing" for production environments?

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