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Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:29:10 -0600
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
I think your proposed schedule is highly unrealistic.
What concerns me, however, is that here has been no attempt, by either
the RM or the Steering Committee, to address the problems with the 3.1.x
and subsequent 3.2.x release process.
These include, but are not limited to:
1) Some kind of planned ABI breakage. When? How is it tested? Putting
this off to the last minute might be ok for the compiler, but I no
longer think this is acceptable, in practice, for the C++ runtime.
Versioning the runtime is non-trivial.
2) Any kind of ABI testing. I don't think the Intel ABI tester is sufficient.
3) Any kind of attempt at compile-time regressions or compile time
performance at all. Dropping the release criteria, or ignoring the
release criteria that deals with compile time performance is unacceptable.
Sane defaults in the garbage collector would be a big win here.
4) Deficiencies in the testing plan. For gcc-3.0.0, Peter Schmidt did a
wonderful job of keeping the rest of the developers in the know about
how key software packages were performing when compiled with the
soon-to-be-released compiler. A return to actually testing the software
packages that are in the release criteria, and not shipping until they
pass, would be welcome.
-benjamin