Le Sunday 23 October 2005 07:09, Vinay Shastry a écrit : | Well, actually, even i dont think its a good idea for providing compat | libs, BUT, its a necessity .. a lot of commertial apps use the old | gcc, for example. some versions of maya, mathematica and lots more.., | so i strongly believe it is in the best interest of wider adoption of | arch that we have to provide compat libraries.
this is an argument. to people like you, i would suggest to go to AUR and vote for this package. if it gets enough votes and a willing TU to take it, it may land in [community] sometimes. it's democracy at work. everybody who needs it can take the PKGBUILD (thanks to ABS) and build it for him/herself. we are using arch, aren't we? very easy to run makepkg and let it compile for some hours in the background ;-) besides this way, i would suggest you and everybody else who comes to situations where other software is forcing you not to use gcc4 to address this people responsible for this software (commercial or not) that they are NOT future-safe and they need to take action or die out (this is evolution at work). if only one person in the whole world does this, nothing will happen for commercial apps, but if the owners of them get thousands of emails of reports that they are using outdated things, they will have to take action. (this is group dynamics and marketing) if we do not look at the future, we would be still running gcc 2.9x... and that is a horror scenario in the year 2005, if you ask me. my 2 cents, (we already have 4 cents in this thread ... in some years, we may have enough to buy a virtual pizza!!!) Damir -- "If a machine couldn't run a free operating system, we got rid of it." -- Richard Stallman (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
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