Peter Robinson wrote:
> buildsys@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >New package compat-gcc-34
> > Compatibility GNU Compiler Collection
> >
> >
>
> Why is this needed in Fedora Core?
1) GCC 3.4.6 is the last one to ship with G77, while Gfortran is quite
far
even in the Fortran77 compatibility, it is not yet there and some
people
have huge Fortran77 codebases, not to mention that Gfortran runtime
is in any case ABI incompatible with G77 runtime
2) similarly, not all third party C++ sources are ready for GCC 4.1.x, so
a secondary compiler is often handy until they manage to rewrite it
3) in the end, all that changed from previous amount of binary packages
is the addition of one new src.rpm - as many compat-gcc-32 subpackages
were nuked at the same time as the number of added compat-gcc-34
subpackages
So it was added just for Fortran77? If this is the case why can't it
be in extras as I'm pretty sure there are no dependancies on Fortran
in Core. Also does it mean it replaces the compat-gcc-32 packages?
No it's very useful to C++ developpers. Unlike C, there are important
changes between g++ 3.x and g++ 4, some that sometimes require massive
rewrites. I think this belongs in Core, as a replacement to compat-gcc-32.
-denis
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