On Jun 12, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
Note, though, that this is only one part of the equation. A most significant amount of work also goes into analysing and potentially fixing packages which do not compile any longer and submit fixes upstream.
:-( Sometimes we wish that gcc had a 5 year warn cycle, followed by a 5 year, -fpretty-please cycle, just so that we don't loose the testing that building tons of software brings to the table.
