Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot org>]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> By the way, from reading this messages I think that people have a
> slightly rosier recollection of the egcs split than I do.  I think the
> egcs split was the right thing to do, but it was also a power play on
> the part of Cygnus because we could not continue operating under the
> existing gcc maintainership regime, and we could not get the FSF to
> change it.  We signed up most of the non-Cygnus contributors because we
> needed political cover; we were able to sign them up because they were
> facing the same problems that we were.

Certainly, and I, as one of the non-Cygnus maintainers (of g77) 
definitely understood it that way.

That was why I was so nervous about it - if the split went off the deep 
end, it could have hurt gcc/g++/g77 development for years ...

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