On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:06:30PM +0200, Cimmo wrote:
> Because I want to know why a stable product will be shipped with beta
> releases.
> Ok in this case gcc is taken from the stable and official branch, but
> there are some patches taken from CVS isn't? So you can probably obtain
> an unstable compiler or a compiler with new bugs, the same thing is for
> kernel, where also snapshot are merged with redhat kernels...
CVS does not imply unstable. And both gcc-4_0{,-rhl}-branch are release
branches, for which (usually) only regression bug fixes are allowed.
Official GCC 4.0.0 release has several very severe bugs that are fixed
in the Fedora GCC.
Jakub