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Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, lucier at math dot purdue dot edu
- Subject: Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:29:22 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: aoliva at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
<<There have been many examples in these mail lists of people
being encouraged to submit partial solutions to hard problems
that can be perfected later. That's precisely what I was trying
to do. Perhaps my rhetorical skills were weak.
>>
Sorry, I definitely do not want to discourage that. I think two things
are important:
1. Partial solutions should not break existing code
2. There needs to be someway to distinguish real releases from
releases which contain partial solutions of this type.