Dennis Gilmore schrieb: > On Friday 11 August 2006 07:57, Jakub Jelinek wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:11:23PM +0530, Rahul 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 > And none of those reasons stop any of the compat-gcc packages being in > extras. Agreed. > IMHO they all should move to extras. +1 > gcc should be in core > compat-gcc-* should be in extras. Unless there is something in core that > requires the older gcc <rant> Well, it seems Core developers don't want to discuss this. I especially liked the attitude in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201913#c2 <irony> The comment describes in a nice and verbose way why this package has to be in Core. </irony> </rant> CU thl -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
