On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 07:00:36PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com> wrote:
but you haven't brought anything forward to support that "ugly hack" statement in this specific case,
#ifdef based solution is going to be ugly, surely you know that. I never made any claims about the magnitude of ugliness, I always want to avoid ugly hacks whenever possible.
If it just requires 2 or 3 #ifdef, adding them and forgetting they existed would have been faster than this thread ;)
nor any hard data regarding which distros could be impacted by a req bump. I'll stop this discussion until you bring some concrete datapoints to the table.
Fair enough! The main point of this discussion was not to convince you but rather to get a third opinion.
Honestly, this is a very weird attitude, rather than trying to come with hard facts, you prefer having some kind of poll and make an arbitary uninformed decision. Christophe