Re: [Cooker] gcc 4.0

[Guillaume Rousse]

Pascal Terjan wrote:
> 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...
I'd also like to have some timeframe for such major change from people
who knows, but I guess this is once again considered as 'private secret
strategic decision', and contributers will as usual get advertised at
the last minute...

BTW, what about rpm 4.4 ?


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