On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:50:24AM -0700, Jeff Garland wrote:
The bottom line is that we can't hold a release that's pretty much ready every time a new compiler version is released -- we'd never finish...and we already
You forget that gcc 4.3 snapshots are available since years? Most of the time the problem is simple that existing patches were ignored for some libraries.
have enough trouble with that. Now, I'd be all for a 1.35.x to add support for additional compilers -- assuming *someone new* wants to volunteer to do the work involved. We have a limited number of people that have been willing to step up and run a release. All those folks are very busy, and so I'd prefer to move right toward a quick 1.36 release...of course new blood to help with that would be appreciated too.
I may be wrong but I guess gcc is not just an arbitrary compiler but a very good one which is also very standard conform. How often does it complain about valid code? So performing all tests not only with a single version of gcc but also with snapshots and stable older versions seems to be no problem for me. Debian provides for example various gcc versions (but this will change soon?) and also a snapshot of gcc and the whole archive with more than 15000 packages was already multiple times compiled with it. This helps to get the archive in a good shape and to detect errors in the snapshot early. Jens