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RE: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")
- To: rms at gnu dot org
- Subject: RE: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")
- From: James Mansion <james at westongold dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:11:03 +0100
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> From: Richard Stallman [mailto:rms@gnu.org]
> As a factual matter, this promise has not been kept.
> Do you really have so little respect for the GNU project that you
> smile at the idea of making a dishonest promise to it?
>
Post 2.7.2 development has hardly merited respect. Its been a
PR disaster and the rate of improvement seen in egcs (not least
the approach to testing and addition of thread, exception and
template functionality) shows what is possible.
Most users and (in particular I guess) ISVs would love there to
be one nice central development effort. But we're not prepared
to see the stagnation that we've seen previously, and not
prepared to lose the real advances being (and been) made in egcs.
How do you propose to progress this - is there even a real issue
beyond turf war?
JAmes