Don Head wrote:
>
> > But would they release a Mandrake with a
> > unstable kernel? He said that if gcc3 is not
> > released, Mandrake will release a unstable gcc
> > for the next release. Since I dont know the
> > roadmap for gcc3 I don't know how big this risk
> > is. Does anyone know about when they plan to
> > release gcc3? If this is not planed to happen
> > in about 6 month I think this is just plain
> > stupid, but if it's suposed to be released soon
> > I might buy your arguments.
> >
> > So when are they planing to release gcc3? In 6
> > month? A year?
>
> I think a lot of people are not seeing something
> fairly obvious to me.
>
> It does not matter if gcc 3 is out by the time
> Mandrake is ready to release another
> distribution.
>
> It doesn't.
>
> Plain and simple.
>
> You know why?
>
> Mandrake won't release a seriously broken
> distribution. Look at them! Pixel, Chmouel, all
> of them, they work their rears off to make sure
> the distro works!
>
> I have no clue how many patches they've applied
> to however many pieces of software they have in
> the distro. You think they're afraid to patch
> gcc? NO! They'll add patch after patch, and
> even move to 2.97 if needed. They will make sure
> that the problems that have recently been
> discovered (and that may be discovered over the
> next few months) will be fixed BEFORE Mandrake
> releases another version.
>
> Why did this even begin, anyway? Cooker is for
> development! That's it! If you're running
> Cooker on a production machine, you MUST have
> suffered some severe head trauma, and should see
> a doctor as soon as possible! It's not for every
> day use! Don't yell at the package maintainers
> for their decisions! They obviously did it for a
> reason. I'm not saying don't question their
> decisions, but don't go off on them! They have
> MUCH better things to do than sit here and listen
> to someone go off on them because they don't have
> a clue as to what's really going on.
>
> So god damnit, end all these god damn gcc 2.96
> hatemail threads now. There's MUCH more
> important things to work on, like a 7.2 beta
> version that's almost done!
>
> Don Head [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Thanks Don - Well said
