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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 01 20:34:06 EDT
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Sure and that's a concern, you definitely want to try to avoid frustrating
developers, but you also have to be sure not to frustrate users. There's a
balance there, and leaving a major target broken for an extended period of
time does not constitute an appropriate balance.
But a key point is who are the "users" here? I'd argue that the
"users" are in fact the set of developers since they are the people
who mainly use the top-of-tree sources. So what we're doing with the
proposed approach is frustrating one group of users in favor of another.