Re: Wherefore art thou 2.95 Announcement?

[Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>]

  In message <37A4B06F.9652339D@switchco.com>you write:
  > 	I'm not specifically unhappy about it as much as I am concerned.
It's still worth expressing your concerns to RMS. 

  > If the required co-ordination with RMS is strictly due to the merger
  > activities then I understand and have no problem with it. If, however,
  > it is an indication of future things to come and describes what will
  > soon be business as usual then I'm willing to start taking bets on
  > when the next source tree split takes place and "Son of EGCS" comes
  > into being.
Some is merger, some is philosophical.  Neither necessarily means there will
be a split as long as all parties involved stay reasonable.  And that's a large
part of why we have a steering committee -- to lessen the impact of individual
personalities and prejudices and help ensure people try to reason with each
other and choose a course that is best for GCC.

  > comes into play here in a big way. Otherwise, some one please tell me
  > what the heck was the benefit of becoming the "official gcc"
  > again?!?!?
From a purely technical standpoint, a single source base from which we all
work rather than trying to do merges back and forth, the fortran, pascal, ada,
etc folks only have to make their front-ends work with one release at a time
(just ask Craig how much work it was to keep g77 working with both the egcs
source base and the gcc-2.8 source base).

From a non-technical standpoint, the merger greatly expands our user base and
helps gain acceptance into more areas.

jeff