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Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: Nicola Pero <nicola at brainstorm dot co dot uk>
- Cc: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>, Helge Hess <helge dot hess at opengroupware dot org>, Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:38:54 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501260108180.29668-100000@nicola.brainstorm.co.uk>
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Nicola Pero wrote:
All the information which was passed out is "the Objective-C frontend
won't work in GCC 4.0" and as a happy cc1obj user without any issues so
far I think it is completely valid to ask for clarification even though
I'm not a GCC internals expert.
No such announcement was ever made. What Mark announced was that
Objective-C bugs would not be treated as release-critical. What this does
is to impose a time limit on getting Objective-C bug fixes into the
compiler.
Mark should have put the spotlight on asking for help in fixing the bugs.
This is a large mailing list of ObjC users and developers and he could
easily get help.
Actually, someone crossposted it.
Instead he chose to put the spotlight on explaining to this same large
mailing list of ObjC zealots why he doesn't care if Objective-C works or
not when he makes a release.
Actually, no.
Mark didn't do that at all.
It was whoever started copying the gnustep lists that did that.
Surprised that this generated a flamewar ? I'd have been surprised of the
opposite.
We try to have a couple flamewars a year, just to get in shape for our
yearly summit.
Unfortunately, this one kinda screws us because now we can't have one till
around March.