Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:34:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: egger@xxxxxxx
On 30 Jul, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> It's you who is unprof(f)essional. You were and are totally wrong with
> your today's claim about gcc -- claiming some not-yet-existant
> version of gcc causes problems on your machine.
Pardon? Just because a version is not officially released doesn't mean
it doesn't exist, does it?
For this purpose, I would say it does (mean that it does not exist).
Especially since it isn't even a formal snapshot (which egcs was doing
for a while), but rather just the current development tree.
I'm forced to use a gcc version later than the LAST OFFICIALLY released
version because I'm having severe problem with the C++ frontend in
2.95.2. I claim I'm using the CVS version from today which is obviously
more rencent than 2.95.2.
Now please tell me, where's my thinko???
The current development tree of GCC could do anything at all,
including not work. It may not even be consistent. It is not the
responsibility of the Gimp developers to track gcc in real time. When
the next version of gcc is released, then it's reasonable to complain
about compile failures in the Gimp, but at present you have no idea
whatsoever whether this is a Gimp bug or a GCC bug. "More recent"
does not necessarily mean "better" or "more correct".
It's possible to have multiple versions of gcc installed on your
system.
> I am not. However, unless you tell me about it I will have no way of
> finding out.
Ok, I told you that you can't compile the plugin with a CVS version
of gcc. There will be surely a new release somewhen so even more
people will notice it, so fixing it before that will happen seems
sensible to me.
Unless the GCC developers have announced that something has changed
that will permanently cause an incompatibility, there's no particular
reason to believe that the compile failure is due to anything wrong
with the Gimp.
Marc, I just want to know ONE little thing: Will you help to make
the gimpperl plugin usable on more systems (for example on future
gccs), YES or NO?
Unless the change has been announced as permanent, you have no idea
what future gcc's will look like.
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