[Bug web/60933] Please do not advertise outdated version of gmp, mpfr, mpc

["andreas.enge at inria dot fr" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60933

--- Comment #7 from Andreas <andreas.enge at inria dot fr> ---
As stated in my report, there is no problem with mentioning the minimal
versions of helper libraries required to compile gcc. The problem is with
actively promoting outdated versions, which can be helped by choosing different
wordings, for instance as I suggested in the report. And a worse problem is
created by actively pushing outdated versions upon the users via
ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/.

I do not know the policy of gcc with regards to continuous integration; I think
gcc should always be thoroughly tested with the latest versions of its helper
libraries, and potential problems be reported upstream; after all, we should
help each other out in improving our free GNU software! (But this becomes
somewhat off-topic.)

Even if you are weary of the latest and greatest version, a position I can
understand, you should not actively distribute releases that have been
unmaintained for quite a while and contain known bugs.

I would like to point out that this position is shared by the current
maintainers of GNU MPC (me) and GNU MPFR (Vincent) and the main developer of
GNU MP (TorbjÃrn, see his posting on the gmp mailing list at
   https://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-devel/2014-April/003770.html
).

Andreas