Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Mark Mitchell]

Patrick McFarland wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
>> That's up to the Objective-C maintainers to ensure.  As the RM, I will 
>> not hold up an otherwise good release because of Objective-C breakage.
> 
> 
> Thats idiotic. Thats like saying you won't hold up the release because 
> of C++ breakage.

I'm not understanding your point.  (Proving your allegation of idiocy, I 
suppose.)

I would indeed hold up the release because of C++ breakage.  C++ is a 
release-critical language; Objective-C is not.  That's very much 
analagous to the fact that IA32 GNU/Linux is a release-critical 
platform; other systems like SH ELF are not.

The SC has to make some tough decisions, analagous to those that would 
be made by product management in a proprietary software development 
environment.  However, unlike that situation, there's still something 
people interested in the de-prioritized feature can do: keep it working.

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