On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Mattias Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > At 12 October, 2000 Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> > > And as for us, we _never_ release a distro with gcc-2.96.
> >
> > To quote Guillaume Cottenceau:
> > "if unfortunately gcc3 will not be out for our next release we will have
> > to find a solution, and it will not be to revert to 2.95 for sure."
>
> and to quote me:
> 'we've never released a distro with gcc-2.96' :-) (see above ??)
> past!='possible future', ok?
>
> > Have you people at mandrakesoft even discussed this matter?
> >
> > As I always have said, if you are just going to use it for cooker, and
> > _never_ do a release using this snapshot (you can call it what ever, but
> > it's not a official gcc release), I have no problems at all. I still dont
> > see why you have to rush into things without even knowing if it's needed.
> > I dont think the right way to prepair for a kernel is to use the
> > hackerkernel as default for a unknown period of time before the expected
> > stable release, the same apply on compilers!
>
> then 2.4.x drivers won't be tested, then new gcc generated code'll never
> be tested. Is this you want from us ?
>
> whatever gcc-3 is availlable or not for 7.3/8, we'll provide a tested and
> fixed gcc. in fact, gcc-2.95.3 may have more bugs that the new one ...
This is all I want to hear ;) I agree with the need to test for gcc-3, I just
don't think 2.96 in it's current state should be on a release distro. People
hold of on new versions when MS releases, while linux people look forward to
the new releases because they are usually more robust while still as stable,
I don't want to see than change and I'm sure you don't want to release a
distro like redhat did.
All in all I trust and like Mandrake enough to push it on all my friends and
family, and I've tried quite a few distro's. Redhat, Suse, slack, debian,
even non linux freebsd and netbsd (a while back), I chose to use Mandrake
because it's a superior product for my purposes at home and work.
Whatever happens with gcc, even it it's in 7.3/8 I will at least give it a
try with Mandrake.
