Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Daniel Berlin]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Nicola Pero wrote:

>
>>> All the information which was passed out is "the Objective-C frontend
>>> won't work in GCC 4.0" and as a happy cc1obj user without any issues so
>>> far I think it is completely valid to ask for clarification even though
>>> I'm not a GCC internals expert.
>>
>> No such announcement was ever made.  What Mark announced was that
>> Objective-C bugs would not be treated as release-critical.  What this does
>> is to impose a time limit on getting Objective-C bug fixes into the
>> compiler.
>
> Mark should have put the spotlight on asking for help in fixing the bugs.
> This is a large mailing list of ObjC users and developers and he could
> easily get help.
Actually, someone crossposted it.

> Instead he chose to put the spotlight on explaining to this same large
> mailing list of ObjC zealots why he doesn't care if Objective-C works or
> not when he makes a release.

Actually, no.
Mark didn't do that at all.
It was whoever started copying the gnustep lists that did that.
>
> Surprised that this generated a flamewar ?  I'd have been surprised of the
> opposite.
>
We try to have a couple flamewars a year, just to get in shape for our 
yearly summit.

Unfortunately, this one kinda screws us because now we can't have one till 
around March.