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Re: GCC 4.5.0 Released
On 19/04/2010 15:31, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> But, I don't think that plug-ins are yet a useful thing to announce in
> what is essentially a "marketing" context. Most users won't be able to
> use them yet. We have some infrastructure; we don't have a lot of use
> of that infrastructure yet.
Well, to be fair, LTO is in somewhat the same position: works, but isn't a
great deal of use /yet/, until people start getting to grips with and using
the _potential_ it provides.
> More broadly, there are lots of things that didn't make the
> announcement. There have been many important improvements since GCC
> 4.4.x; they don't all fit in an announcement.
But I agree with this: a release announcement is just an email someone sends
out after a new release is uploaded, it is not a major PR effort nor a
statement of policy nor even something from which to attempt to infer the
relative priority of different features. It's just a non-comprehensive brief
precis. So if there's a discussion to be had here, it's about how GCC should
be "marketed", and the extent to which a release announcement should be part
of that effort.
cheers,
DaveK