From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28497 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2004 19:48:25 -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 28476 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 19:48:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at) (128.131.111.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 19:48:24 -0000 Received: from [128.131.111.60] (acrux [128.131.111.60]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C6A13787; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:48:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:48:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Daniel Jacobowitz , Steven Bosscher Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal In-Reply-To: <200401130125.28098.s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> Message-ID: References: <90200277-4301-11D8-BDBD-000A95B1F520@apple.com> <20040113000554.GB599@nevyn.them.org> <20040113001648.GA5201@nevyn.them.org> <200401130125.28098.s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00815.txt.bz2 On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > "Same high quality"? I know you're aware of them, but you might want > to revisit the reasons that _no vendor_ I know of in several years has > shipped an FSF released compiler. FreeBSD has been doing that more or less, and in some of the cases (like SUSE last spring) there simply was a timing issue with the two release schedules not fitting. (We are not taking aboute a patch here or there, but substantial changes, right?) On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Steven Bosscher wrote: > Yes. Most of the RTL-opt branch is in SUSE's 3.3.3. It is also on > the hammer branch for everyone else. Gentoo and Mandrake use the > hammer branch, simply because it beats the FSF release on all turf. > I still hope debian switches too, it would be a good choice I think. With my FSF hat on, I don't like this too much. With my distributor hat on, I can fully understand it. Long term, I hope we can converge so that FSF GCC will be useful in a more direct way. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/