Things went much more smoothly than expected

Aug 18, 2015 16:08 GMT  ·  By

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) has finally moved to GCC 5.x, and it looks like it's been a rather smooth transition, and things should remain calm for the time being.

For the current Ubuntu development cycle, the move to GCC 5.x must have been one of the biggest hurdles for the team, but they've got past it. The mobile version of Ubuntu also went through the same process and things seem to have calmed there as well.

"Gee, 564 "[ubuntu wily] ... (Accepted)" emails this morning. Sounds like the g++ 5 Transition From Hell has landed, and -proposed deflated from 'half a new release' back to its usual staging area size ☺ Congrats everyone involved! And no kudos to whoever specified this.. Building the same code with the same options on a newer compiler version resulting in ABI changes is just plain wrong, period. It's okay to do it with switching software projects explicitly with -cxx11abi'" Martin Pit wrote on the Google+.

Changing the compiler is a difficult task, and it can create a lot of problems, but the Ubuntu developers have been working very hard to see that nothing happens and that the cycle will remain on track. Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) is scheduled to arrive this October, so only a few months are left. You can download the daily build of the OS, if you want to give it a spin.