Re: Good luck when RedHat 7.0 comes out (was RE: test5 oops after

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 02:05:04 EST


> > Sorry, no offense, but since Alan considers gcc 2.95.2 as fine for
> > 2.2.17pre, I cannot see any further reason to stick with decrepit egcs.
>
> If Alan says it's fine as of 2.2.17preX, it's _fine as of 2.2.17preX_.
> Point being that Alan is the person who makes maintainability decisions
> for the 2.2 tree and whether you or I see/agree or not is meaningless.

The obvious reason to stick with egcs is that its known to work, while 2.95
now appears to work for everything. Subtle, but if you are running a huge
server farm 24x7, important difference

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