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Re: GCC Release Delay
- To: hjl at lucon dot org, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk
- Subject: Re: GCC Release Delay
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:29:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
<<I can assure you that gcc 3.0 has some critical bugs. It is just a
matter when people will discover them, if the gcc developers believe
them are critical bugs and when the 3.0.1 will be released to fix
them.
>>
It is worth remembering that there is nothing particularly special about
a day when you don't *know* about any serious bugs. There is no particular
merit in releasing on such a day as opposed to a few days earlier or later
when you do know about bugs.
I often find that technical people are unhappy about releasing something
with known problems, but really that's equivalent to users to releasing
something which has only unknown problems. Of course our goal is to release
something with no problems at all, but that's an entirely different
kettle of fish :-)