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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- From: Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram dot Gloger at dent dot med dot uni-muenchen dot de>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:53:48 +0200 (MDT)
- CC: root at ihack dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <23916.957368110@upchuck>
[Charles Hannum]
> > I forget which patches *specifically*, but I know for a fact that
> > there were several known and well-tested patches that were important
> > to NetBSD that did not go in 1.1.2 because it was specifically slated
> > to support Linux.
[Jeff Law]
> Err, no. egcs-1.1.2 was a bugfix release to egcs-1.1.1, in no way was it
> specifically slated to support Linux. If you don't know something for a
> fact, do not state it as a fact, especially on a public list.
Maybe Charles misremembered and meant egcs-1.0.2, not 1.1.2? _That_
really was an example of a release whose purpose you declared as `to
fix problems for RedHat and that's it'. (So, not just `Linux only'
but even RedHat only..) This provoked at least some discussion, see
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1998-04/msg00923.html and followups.
Fortunately, since then this has remained the only such `slated'
release AFAICS.
Regards,
Wolfram.