On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:36:34AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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.
Maybe you could tune in to the discussions next time instead of waiting for a year before raising your voice...it's not like they were secret. Kris
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