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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: carlo at alinoe dot com (Carlo Wood)
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: hjl at lucon dot org (H . J . Lu), mark at codesourcery dot com (Mark Mitchell), aoliva at redhat dot com (Alexandre Oliva), dewar at gnat dot com (dewar at gnat dot com), kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org)
> I feel I am insignificant person here, and perhaps this is over my head...
> but I can't stand seeing you good people fighting: this should be _fun_ for
> each and everyone of you!
>
> So, as an outsider, allow me to propose a compromise:
>
> Why don't we release a 3.0.1 that has NO regressions towards 3.0,
> that has no NEW regressions towards 2.95.3 and that fixes some
> important regressions towards 2.95.3. Then we tell the users
> that this is a bug fix release but that it still has known regressions
> relative to 2.95.3. It shouldn't be hard to make a list of these
> regressions.
OK, we accept your proposal. (Because it's already the plan in any case).