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Re: 4.0.2 released, 4.0 branch open again
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:41:58AM +0200, François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> > FWIW working on three branches is a little too much, so once 4.2 branches we
> > should stop backporting to 4.0.
>
> I complete understand (and agree with) that. Unfortunately, distros
> will ship with 4.0 for a long time (how much time before Debian ships
> 4.1, for example?), and the compiler will be judged on that.
Yup. AFAIK the next version of both Debian and RHEL will use gcc 4.0
as the system compiler, suggesting that 4.0 will see quite widespread
usage.
My suggestion would be that once 4.1 is released we backport as much
as possible to 4.0 and then put both 4.0 and 4.1 in regfix mode. I
guess that is pretty much the same thing as Tobi said above too, for
that matter.
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Janne Blomqvist