On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:34:51 (CEST), Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:17:32PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >I'm not sure there are any in the original, plugins and a greater >> >optimisation level certainly aren't things which will solve specific >> >problems. Could you highlight them for me? >> >> Having these features available for developers, and having not to >> wait two years until these appear in a stable release is worth the >> update. Exposing a new compiler version to upstream developers >> helps reducing the delta between upstream and debian packages. Yes I >> think this is worth having it in squeeze. >> > > I don't think that stable is the place for doing active development.
stable is in the place so that (upstream) developers can develop their applications with hopefully state-of-the art tools. >> >At the moment, I'm still not sure on the actual advantage of >> >introducing this new package at this stage in the release cycle. >> >> well, currently I don't see any arguments against the upload, just >> some feelings that could apply to any package. >> > > That's kinda the point. These apply for any package, and especially so > for a toolchain. > > Given that there doesn't seem to be any compelling reason for gcc4.5 in > squeeze, I'm afraid it's not going to make it for this release. - gcc-4.5 brings many improvements (e.g., improved C++0x support) that help developers a lot during development. - applications developed with g++-4.5 require g++-4.5's runtime library, they won't *run* with g++-4.4's libstdc++6 package. The second point appears very compelling to me since a considerable demand during squeeze's lifetime can be expected because of the first point. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gcc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hjl8rul....@faui44a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de