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Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:33:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
>>>>> Mark Mitchell writes:
Mark> This is the problem with the whole volunteer thing; when push comes to
Mark> shove, I have just a few choices: fix stuff myself, release it anyway,
Mark> or delay it. Which one of those choices makes sense depends on where
Mark> we are and what everyone else thinks.
Mark> I've gotten more "flexible" with the release criteria over the years
Mark> because in practice it does not seem to be possible to actually achieve
Mark> them with the resources we have. I try to stay pretty zealous about
Mark> the GNATS PRs, though; those indicate things people have actually
Mark> noticed in the real world.
We have some general goals about improvements that should appear
in GCC 3.4. We certainly have merged large changes during Stage 2 and
Stage 3 development. We need to remain flexible to prevent development
divergence and to attract the largest number of developers to help get the
releases finished.
The best way to avoid your spending a lot of time fixing bugs
yourself is to create an environment that motivates the larger developer
community to fix the bugs.
Thanks, David