Re: Wherefore art thou 2.95 Announcement?

[David Starner <dstarner98 at aasaa dot ofe dot org>]

At 03:39 PM 8/1/99 -0500, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
>The egcs project was successful, in large part, due to the
>autonomy of the development group and the good sense of its main
>personnel (like Jeff for instance). 

The same development group is still there. The GCC steering commitee is the
EGCS steering committee. 

>Had it not been for these efforts,
>progress on the gcc compiler suite would have (or rather, did!) come
>to a standstill I believe. 

It didn't come to a standstill, it merely slowed way down. The fact that
many good developers were drawn off for the more developer friendly egcs
project couldn't have helped.

>The whole "Cathedral vs. Bazaar" thing
>comes into play here in a big way. 
There is no plans to make the way GCC is developed any different from the
way egcs was.

>Otherwise, some one please tell me
>what the heck was the benefit of becoming the "official gcc"
>again?!?!?

No more problems with the glibc issue. No more redudant CVS servers,
mailing lists, ect. The frontend people (f77 and Pascal) can stop
supporting two releases, and the Ada people will start supporting the most
recent version of GCC instead 2.8.1. Distributors and users no longer have
to worry about supporting gcc 2.8.1 and egcs. 


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