Re: [Cooker] Why gcc 2.96 and not 3.0?

[Blue Lizard]

I had really been itching to quote chmouel on that, thanks.  Where is he 
anyway?  I have not seen or heard of him in a while...pink slipped? 
management now? :P (of course noone's stupid enough to make him exec)

OT: on the subject of missing developers, when is warly back?  I thought 
that french people no longer made it a habit to take 2 month vacations...

And if we (you) continue on the same flight plan and not hijack the 
plane, 2.96 will be for 8.1 and then a direct skip to 9 with 3.x. 
possibly even a month early.  On someone's note, yes, bad backwards 
compat with g++ and others but the point of the total revamp was to lay 
the way for future upgrades to be more smooth and more compatible (LESS 
TIME TESTING AND PATCHING FOR DISTRO MAINTAINERS).