RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] libstdc++5 or 6

["Neil Howe" <NeilH@xxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Thinking about it, when gcc >= 3.4 is installed it must also install
> libstd++v5, but this obviously will come with lots of baggage (like
the
> whole compiler collection)! Reallistically the only way of intsalling
it
> maybe from source, since I don't think most v5 based distributions
offer
> this as an option.
> 

So in summary owners of v5 based systems aren't able to run new
applications that are based on v6, without building something from
source or doing a major system upgrade. 

So it seems for application vendors like us it's hard to benefit from
the newer compiler versions without losing a proportion (I wonder what
proportion?) of their potential user base. Or providing multiple
download alternatives of course, which is a pain and means the user has
to know which version they actually need for their system.

Neil