Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 17:50 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: >> Christopher Aillon wrote: >>> On 05/05/2008 11:48 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>> This step is way over due. It also will teach maintainers not run the >>>> autotools while building. >>> It will also teach maintainers not to use Fedora for doing upstream work. >> I agree. This proposal seems to be all pain for no gain. > The fact Fedora ships gcc-4.3.0 is all pain for no gain. Certainly not! There's been a bunch of useful improvements, as you'll see on the gcc web page. > Please add versions of gcc of all active GCC-branches, such that people > can continue to use f77 and c++'s backward stuff. > > Also consider adding a version of gcc which ships still supports libg++. > > Do you sense the insanity? I don't think this is a relevant comparison. Most importantly, gcc is a large package, so there is a considerable cost to shipping more than one version. As has been pointed out, this FESCo proposal is mere make-work for no purpose. It serves only to distract maintainers from doing something useful. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
