On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > Yo,
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:21:27AM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
> > > Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > > > I heard from GNU that this isn't a production release
> > > > > Here is the link:
> > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
> > > >
> > > > We use it for cooker not for frozen, 7.2 will keep gcc2.95 stable
> > > > version with cvs updates.
> > >
> > > Read what people on cooker said... They do not want it.
> > > By doing such thing, you ensure that C++ coder using cooker
> > > will stop using it...
> > >
> > > Don't make the same mistake redhat did.
> >
> > Rather, I worry that you will lose a lot of users if you use gcc 2.96 for
> > cooker.
>
> I can't believe Chamouel basically says "Follow the leader." If Mandrake
> followed everything RedHat did as it did in the early releases, it would
> have nothing to offer over RedHat. Thankfully, this is not the
> case. However, now he says "RedHat did it so we must do it too." This is
> ironic because it is yet another way for Mandrake to stand out from RedHat
> and show their support for the GCC team and "stable" releases. Even I
> criticize Mandrake for their lack of stability. This certainly will not
> help. Please think of valid reasons instead of simply saying "Well RedHat
> is doing it so we have to do it too."
Well spoken!
In the eyes of the Linux community, RedHat is making a really big blunder
with their inclusion of 2.96 in their mainstream release. It doesn't even
matter if this is really the case or not -- the linux community will view it
as such because of all of the bad press about it.
Mandrake should stay as far away from 2.96 as they can right now, so as not
to get included in the RedHat bashing that's going on right now. If Mandrake
truly wants to be thought of as "separate, different, and ultimately better"
than RedHat, they need to stay as far away from 2.96 as they can for the
moment. Wait for 3.0.
My .02.
-Steven
