Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Richard Earnshaw]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:16, Adrian Robert wrote:

> What seems to be the issue now is that the C/C++ crowd has more 
> manpower behind it, but the Objective-C crowd still thinks its language 
> is important (for reasons given by other posters).  I just want to 
> question the assumption that the release criteria differentiation made 
> is the only possible compromise.

You're forgetting that this is a volunteer project.  We can't force
developers to work on something they don't want to work on.  What's
more, if we try to hold up the release for this, then those volunteers
are likely to wander off and do something else (like work on the
following release) rather than waste their own time on something of
little-to-no interest to them.

Most C/C++ developers see little interest in objective C.  If *you*
think it's important, then *you* need to find the volunteers who are
interested in doing the work (or pay someone to take an interest on your
behalf).

R.