Re: [Cooker] gcc 4.0

[Pascal Terjan]

On 4/25/05, Gaetan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann@jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 02:08:10 +0200, Scott Newton <scottn@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > I see that gcc 4.0 is in cooker. Is there any timeframe on when this will
> > replace gcc 3.4.3 as the default gcc compiler?
> 
> gcc 4.0 is out only since a few days. I think we should wait to use gcc
> 4.0 as default version, so developers can adapt their code to the new gcc
> release. Waiting should avoid us writing lots of patches or modifing our
> spec file to use gcc 3.4

Most developper won't use it before their distribution use it. Using
it by default will make the transition faster. I prefer fixing few
apps than waiting one year that the developpers try fixing it...