4.4 release date estimate?

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi Damian,

> Does anyone have an idea of when 4.4 will go from being
> a development branch to being a release?

I think that will happen during the next few days.

The release critera are:
(a) No release critical (priority 1, P1) regressions
(b) Less than 100 serious (P1 to P3) regressions

Current status is: 102 serious regressions of which 8 are P1.
See: http://gcc.gnu.org/ -> "Active development: GCC 4.4.0" ->
-> "Serious regressions"

> I'm working on an open-source project for which I
> expect to do my first release in 2-3 months.  What really interests me are
> features that have been discussed for 4.5 (most importantly the 'class'
> keyword and 'final' procedures). At least once there exists a 4.5
> development branch, I'll be able to tell users that support for these
> features is imminent.

The goal is to have the CLASS and FINAL features relatively soonish in 4.5,
however, I would not bet/rely on that they are indeed that quickly implemented.

Tobias