Bug 391828

Summary: Include GCC-7/G++-7 in Developer Edition
Product: [KDE Neon] neon Reporter: Scott Harvey <scott>
Component: Packages Unstable EditionAssignee: Neon Bugs <neon-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: andrew.crouthamel, jr, neon-bugs-null, sitter
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
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Description Scott Harvey 2018-03-13 17:54:31 UTC 
Please consider including GCC-7/G++-7 in the neon Developer Edition, since it's what the KDE apps are being built with. Even though it's not officially packaged for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, it can be downloaded and successfully used from the following PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/gcc-7.3

It doesn't necessarily need to be set as the default, but having it loaded would be handy. Otherwise, we're using GCC/G++ 5.4.0, from 2016. These will compile the KDE apps fine, but won't generate the same compiler warnings as Jenkins (or the senior developers we newcomers are trying to assist).

It's a wishlist item. I've already got my compilers upgraded. Just putting the idea out there for consideration.
Comment 1 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-07 11:22:45 UTC 
Gcc 7 is now in repo due to 18.04 rebase.