There's some confusion here, cooker is no longer 7.2beta, they are branched
and 7.2 is frozen. 7.2 has gcc2.95. Cooker, which is experimental, has the
experimental 2.96 and is on it's way to being the next Mandrake release after
7.2 already, by the time it finally releases I imagine it won't have 2.96
either. Mandrake says they are not releasing a distro with 2.96, 7.2 will
have 2.95 they claim. So enough about 2.96 for now. ;)
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> There are a few reasons why this is a bad idea:
>
> 1. It's an insult to the gcc developers to use a unstable snapshot in a
> distro against their will, this will make the gcc developers look bad. I
> dont think anyone here would be happy if I started shipping a cooker distro
> as Mandrake stable.
>
> 2. It's unstable! And a compiler one of the more important packages to
> have realy stable, since a distro isn't more stable than then the compiler!
>
> 3. It breaks compability! Some say that it's only C++, but that's bad
> enough! I develop Gtk+Licq the gtk plugin for licq. It would be a big
> problem providing binary rpm's for a package like this. And I wouldn't be
> able to guarantee anything since the compiler used is known to break C++
> compability and it's unstable!
>
> Think it's a insult to the whole community to start using snapshots against
> the authors will! If we are going down that road, I will not be part of it!
>
> //Snaggen
