[gpc] Re: GCC integration?

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Releasing a 3.5.x compiler with Pascal support and a 4.0 series
without does not make any sense to me.  I would strongly urge that
people inetrested in integrating gpc ini FSF GCC work hard on 4.1.x.
Resources will be best spent there.


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| > For others, developers, especially OS vendors, this
| > would also be great, because history has shown that
| > gcc 3.x branches tend to end after 3.x.3 or 3.x.4,

But we got 3.3.5 and we're going to get 3.3.5


Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de> writes:

| 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.  For the other ones,
| apparently nobody was interested in continuing the release branch.

Ending 3.2.x series at 3.2.3 was a decision made after 3.3.x had been
released and people shifting there.  I did not see any wide need to
continue releasing from that series.  The situation for 3.3.x is
radically different from that of 3.2.x.

-- Gaby