Is it OK to prepare drives in mdadm RAID in LinuxMint live and then run CentOS7 installer?

I am planning to setup a CentOS7 server with software RAID. Since the CentOS7 installer isn't particularly good at preparing the disks, I wonder if it would be OK to boot up a LinuxMint 18 live, do the partitioning and RAID assignment and then reboot in the CentOS7 installer and do the installation, skipping the partitioning part.

What worries me is that they seem to be packed with different versions of software for manipulating disks.

For example:

CentOS 7.4:

gdisk 0.8.6

mdadm 4.0-5

LinuxMint 18.3

gdisk 1.0.1

mdadm 3.3-2

1. So, if I create the raid array on Mint live with an older version of mdadm, should I expect problems when CentOS tries to assemble that array with a newer version of mdadm?
2. Will I be missing on features when I create the array with an older version of mdadm, like different default values, etc.?
3. How about gdisk, but in the opposite direction?