Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 03:04, Richard Kelsch wrote:
An OS with an open-source community can not be tied down at the whim
of a group of bearded men with a clean coding fetish. It runs totally
counter to the idea of software from the community.
Since you haven't, in all your ranting, mentioned a single specific
bug that we might hope could be fixed and certainly not fixed by
waiting, what is your suggestion to make things better here? Fedora
doesn't control the C language or gcc versions. If those move in a way
that breaks old stuff - or refuses to build old already-broken stuff,
what do you expect a distribution on a fast release schedule to do?
If you are going to criticize, be constructive.
I hit "send" too soon. I apologize if that statement made anyone on the
Fedora team feel I was directing the bearded jab at them. No, I was
expressing my views on gcc. My only beef with Fedora was why was it
(gcc4) implemented without sufficient warning of its possible effects.
In fact, the release notes just briefly mention a difference in using
"lvalues" in an illegal way and that's it. Ok, what's than mean for me
as a user? What possible changes or negative results may I encounter?
Are there any places to go to perhaps to learn how to correct any
problems resulting from the gcc upgrade? I understand that the Fedora
team most likely did the change for performance reasons, and not to
throw a monkey wrench into the community just because they could.
Please let this be clear.
Constructive enough for you?
