I'm bumping this thread in hopes some Googe/Chromium devs will realize that GCC 4.7.2 is available for RHEL6. Please continue supporting google-chrome for rhel/centos 6. Now that version 26 is stable we get a warning message every time chrome is launched. "Google Chrome has stopped updating ..." On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 02/12/2013 12:20 PM, Gé Weijers wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: >> >>> I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was >>> too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so, >>> but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting >>> updates and so on? >>> >> It would not be 'backporting' if you'd set up a build environment that uses >> a newer GCC and GTK2 library, and statically link against the newer GTK2. >> That's a bit of a pain for release engineering, but it's not rocket >> science. RHEL6/C6 (and Ubuntu 10.04) desktops are probably a tiny fraction >> of Google's user base, so they just may not want to expend the effort. >> >> Alternatively, one could do something tricky like make a special build of >> newer GTK2 libraries built with the newer GCC, and make Chrome load them in >> stead of the regular ones. > > Well, there are hobby users and there are real users. Google SHOULD > understand the difference. > > Most businesses and large user deployments of a Linux desktop would be > using things like CentOS, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu LTS and not the bleeding > edge distros with all the new versions of GTK. > > Don't get me wrong, I understand that there are a large number of people > using the 6 month distros too ... BUT ... most enterprises I know of > that use Linux on the desktop are not among them. > > Mozilla did figure that out and release their ESR version for these > people because they understand that they do make up a significant > portion of the people who actually get work done on Linux. Hopefully RH > will be able to convince them to continue to provide some kind of support. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada