erm.. just checked.. its not the 3.X compat packages i am looking for.. its the gcc 2.X :P so the gcc 3.4 .. i really wont recommend :)
On 10/23/05, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 thousands of emails of reports that they are using outdated things, they 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) > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > -- Vinay S Shastry _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
