[gpc] Re: GCC integration?

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> For GCC 3.3 at least this is not true.  GCC 3.3 is really the first of
> the GCC3 series that received wide acceptance.

Both Red Hat and SUSE based their previous enterprise distributions
on 3.2.

> I don't know why you think your idea is great for OS vendors.  As far
> as I can tell they're pretty happy with GCC 3.3 (only Fedora Core 3 is
> based on GCC 3.4, as far as I can tell)

FreeBSD 5.x is using GCC 3.4...

> everyone appears to be aiming for GCC4 for the next major release.

...but I guess FreeBSD 6.x will be based on GCC 4.x.

> If any of the large vendors would have been interested in a new GCC3 
> based release, they would have asked by now.

I fully agree with that.  Now is not the time to ask for GCC 3.5.

Gerald