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Re: GCC Release Delay
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: GCC Release Delay
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:38:08 -0700
- Cc: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
- References: <20010617212920.C2C94F289A@nile.gnat.com>
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:29:20PM -0400, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> <<I can assure you that gcc 3.0 has some critical bugs. It is just a
> matter when people will discover them, if the gcc developers believe
> them are critical bugs and when the 3.0.1 will be released to fix
> them.
> >>
>
> It is worth remembering that there is nothing particularly special about
> a day when you don't *know* about any serious bugs. There is no particular
> merit in releasing on such a day as opposed to a few days earlier or later
> when you do know about bugs.
>
Exactly.
> I often find that technical people are unhappy about releasing something
> with known problems, but really that's equivalent to users to releasing
> something which has only unknown problems. Of course our goal is to release
> something with no problems at all, but that's an entirely different
> kettle of fish :-)
I have been making the Linux binutils with known/unknown bugs available
to the Linux people. I have been doing my best to fix them with a new
release as soon as they are reported.
H.J.