* 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
