This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases
Patrick McFarland wrote:
Mark Mitchell wrote:
That's up to the Objective-C maintainers to ensure. As the RM, I will
not hold up an otherwise good release because of Objective-C breakage.
Thats idiotic. Thats like saying you won't hold up the release because
of C++ breakage.
I'm not understanding your point. (Proving your allegation of idiocy, I
suppose.)
I would indeed hold up the release because of C++ breakage. C++ is a
release-critical language; Objective-C is not. That's very much
analagous to the fact that IA32 GNU/Linux is a release-critical
platform; other systems like SH ELF are not.
The SC has to make some tough decisions, analagous to those that would
be made by product management in a proprietary software development
environment. However, unlike that situation, there's still something
people interested in the de-prioritized feature can do: keep it working.
--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
mark@codesourcery.com
(916) 791-8304