On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Rick Forrister wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Marco Shaw wrote:
> > This is Linux after all, and just like a message I read about GLIBC
> > and
> > RedHat being the first to implement it in a customer release...
> > "Somone's
> > got to do it.".
> > However, IIRC, this isn't even a RELEASE version of GLIBC. Why did RH
> > decide to ship with a pre-release version of GLIBC that isn't even a
> > "Release Candidate" from what I've read... Seems to be poor planning
> > IMNSHO. >
>
> The last word I had (from a RH staff member) was that the decision was
> made in preparation for kernal 2.4 & gcc 3.0. The deciding factor
> apparantly
> was the use of an interface matching the needs of those components.
> The
> idea is that a minor update should be sufficient to bring 7.0 up with
> those components when released.
>
> Prognostication can be a hard way to make a living.
>
Yep. I just have trouble with a "major" release using a "pre-beta"
compiler/glib.:-(
John
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