Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Adrian Robert wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2005, at 9:22 AM, Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> > Adrian Robert wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > Could there be a middle ground to holding
> > > up releases for too long waiting for non-market-majority development
> > > (a practice which led to the splintering of egcs in the past) on one
> > > side and gradually but surely becoming a specialist C/C++ solution
> > > on the other?
> >
> > I don't see the point here. Holding up the release does not somehow
> > make more resources available for working on Objective-C. If there
> > are people interested in objective-C, let them work on it. If not,
> > I see no basis for holding up the release.
>
> Although it's a volunteer software project, it's also a software project.  If 
> broader release criteria are chosen and some of the less popular ones are 
> holding up the release, those who are in a rush to have the release for other 
> features, and have time, might be encouraged to help work on what's holding 
> it up.

So in other words, you want others to do the work for you, by trying to 
hold *gcc* hostage.

> Whether that means actually writing code, or just being a little more 
> tolerant and/or timely in providing advice and guidance to those who _are_ 
> writing the code, it means getting the job done quicker.

People have been very tolerant and timely in providing advice to people 
attempting to solve objective C issues.
As has been pointed out, Richard told Zem how to fix this bug many months 
ago.