* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050628 21:57] wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:47:03AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > No, it's not that.  It's just that when we decided to upgrade gcc/g++
> > in the 5.2.1 era someone didn't bump the library version for
> > libstdc++.
> > 
> > It would have been a two second change, but instead it appears that
> > it was decided that early adopters REALLY needed to be put in their
> > place for being stupid enough... to be early adopters.
> 
> No, it wasn't that simple..there were many places where the ABI was
> broken, and it wasn't feasible to fix them all.

"So instead of screwing a subset of the users we screwed them all."

I'm not really happy that mindset but if it's working for us(*) then
I guess we should keep doing it.

(*) not me, as I always seem to get hosed by these things.

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein
- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: 408-480-4684
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