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Re: GCC 4.3 release schedule

From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
To: Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave dot org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Andrew MacLeod <amacleod at redhat dot com>, Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:43:22 -0400
Subject: Re: GCC 4.3 release schedule
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Dennis Clarke wrote:

Is "correctness" a feature ?

Yes, but not one that gets merged in during stage 1 :)

   I would like to see a nice clean GCC 4.2.x before GCC 4.3.zero even gets
thought of.  Why would one simply branch towards the next release when
the previous one still needs some work?  To appease sales people and
developers making noises for features?

Planning for 4.3.0 has no effect at all on the 4.2.x schedule. People work on 4.2.x or not depending on their own priorities. I've fixed a few bugs in 4.2 since the 4.2.2 release, and I fully expect there will be at least a 4.2.3 before 4.3.0 goes out.

Distributors are interested in a timely 4.3.0 because they'll be using whatever compiler they settle on for a long time and would like it to be up to date. Sometimes some of the new features are important to support the needs of other parts of the system.

Jason

References:
- GCC 4.3 release schedule
  - From: Andrew MacLeod
- Re: GCC 4.3 release schedule
  - From: Richard Guenther
- Re: GCC 4.3 release schedule
  - From: Andrew MacLeod
- Re: GCC 4.3 release schedule
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: GCC 4.3 release schedule
  - From: David Daney
- Re: GCC 4.3 release schedule
  - From: Dennis Clarke

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