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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0
- To: rjschwei at mindspring dot com (Robert Schweikert)
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:37:02 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Having convinced a number of people that GCC is a good choice as a
> compiler to use for a large commercial app with millions of lines of C++
> code and lots of template use I think that a 6 month release cycle is
> too frequent, for "major" releases.
There has been some confusion about terms. For the purpose of the
proposed 6-month schedule, "major" means that the second release number
is changed, e.g. 3.1, 3.2, etc. Bug fix releases, e.g. 3.0.1, 3.0.2,
etc will be more frequent.
> With "major" release I mean releases where features are deprecated or
> use of features changes. All these types of changes in the compiler
> require changes in the user code, which in the end costs a company time
> = money. No one will be happy about that.
Code that complies with standards will not have to be changed. It will
always work, modulo bugs in the compiler.