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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, "Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com" <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>, "bonzini at gnu dot org" <bonzini at gnu dot org>, "dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com" <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>, "dberlin at dberlin dot org" <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, "dje dot gcc at gmail dot com" <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "mark at codesourcery dot com" <mark at codesourcery dot com>, "rguenther at suse dot de" <rguenther at suse dot de>
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:45:35 -0500
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
>> So what if the FSF hadn't accepted the reality of the day, and had
>> decided to let egcs *not* be the official GCC? ?Would you have pulled
>> the plug on egcs and gone back to the cathedral?
>>
>
> Personally, I would have continued to put my effort into EGCS. ?Obviously, I
> can't speak for other developers specifically, I believe if you compared
> overall developer participation in the projects, it was clear that EGCS was
> more viable.
yes -- and some of us got into GCC, precisely thanks to the open
development of EGCS.
-- Gaby