On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:47:55PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:03:45PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Happy new year to everyone! > > > > > > gcc 2.95.3 appeared in Sid, but it hasn't been announced by the > > > GCC steering committee yet. Is this some kind of early access > > > version? > > > > It's based on the CVS branch, which is noted in the changelog if you had > > bothered to read it. > > To read the changelog I have to download and install it. But I don't > like to install unknown compilers on my development machines. Especially > since there is no undo operation for dpkg -i.
To read the changelog, you do not have to install it. > > There's no such thing as "early access", this is > > open source you know :) > > > > My (personal) definition for 'Early Access Software' is that somebody > has grabbed a more or less stable version with the knowledge of the > maintainers before the official release date. I cannot see why > this definition shouldn't be applicable to GPL software. To me "Early Access" is a commercial buzz word that means "some special people get access before everyone else". -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'