Re: (Fwd) GCC steering committee position on use of snapshots

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

Matt Wilson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:42:49AM -0700, Freddy Jensen wrote:
> >
> > In light of the recent message from the GCC Steering Committee
> > regarding RH-7 and gcc-2.96 I'd like to ask people on this
> > mailing list whether or not you plan to upgrade to RH-7
> > within your companies.
> 
> All of the workstations and most of the servers at Red Hat are now
> running Red Hat Linux 7...

I'll vouch for that. I know a few of the minions that did the
upgrade(s).

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> > An interesting question might be: Was RH-7 built with gcc-2.96?
> 
> Absolutely.  Examples of things in the distribution built with the
> 2.96 snapshot C++: Mozilla (huge), kde2 (huge), and openjade (not
> small either).  Everything C++ except KDE 1 was built with 2.96
> snapshot.  We didn't build KDE 1 with it because we wanted third party
> apps linked against KDE to break.

Is it just me or does that last sentence sound really wrong? I personaly
wouldn't want anything to break intentionally.

Chris Kloiber
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