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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: nightstrike at gmail dot com
- Cc: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, bonzini at gnu dot org, dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdr at integrable-solutions dot net, law at redhat dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, rguenther at suse dot de, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:03:25 EDT
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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> > GCC uses are the ones developed in the egcs days. Remember the old
> > days when the location of the development tree and the snapshots was
> > a secret, and people were threatened with banning if they let it out?
>
> Are you serious? Why would it be handled that way?
It's hard to remember back to those days, but basically it was because
of concerns people wouldn't appreciate the fact that the development
versions were just that and known to be buggy, would use them anyway,
and badmouth GCC. Now it's quite common to have these sorts of "unstable"
versions of Free Software out there, so people are aware of this, but back
then this was more "uncharted territory".