From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32516 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2004 23:51:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 32508 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 23:51:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (66.187.237.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 23:51:12 -0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i0DNSMl02770; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:28:22 -0500 Received: from potter.sfbay.redhat.com (potter.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.15]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i0DNnmM20034; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:49:48 -0500 Received: from [172.16.25.168] (dhcp-172-16-25-168.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.25.168]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i0DNnlO20340; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:49:47 -0800 Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal From: Eric Christopher To: Geoff Keating Cc: Mark Mitchell , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Phil Edwards In-Reply-To: References: <90200277-4301-11D8-BDBD-000A95B1F520@apple.com> <20040110002526.GA13568@disaster.jaj.com> <82D6F34E-4306-11D8-BDBD-000A95B1F520@apple.com> <20040110154129.GA28152@disaster.jaj.com> <1073935323.3458.42.camel@minax.codesourcery.com> <1073951351.3458.162.camel@minax.codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1074037726.3386.49.camel@dzur.sfbay.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:51:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00832.txt.bz2 > > These releases, however, are FSF releases, and they should be of the > > same high quality as the FSF releases for other packages, such as Emacs > > or GNU Awk. Unless the SC says otherwise, of course. :-) > > So, why do you think the current mainline is not "high quality"? I'm going to avoid most of the issues raised so far and at least comment on this: I've not seen in the years I've been working on gcc as few bugs as I currently see right now in mainline. I don't think quality has been higher. Mostly I think we've finally gotten people to do what we've been complaining about over the years which is to file bugs when they run into them. Just look at the number of bugs we've gotten in the last, say, year or two compared with the number of bug reports from the last 5 before that. -eric -- Eric Christopher