Thanks for the info Martin.  (I can't e-mail to you either from work for
some reason.  [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my personal address.)

I also tried to file a bug report (bugreport.apple.com) as suggested to
request Apple include f77/g77 in the next release.  The bug report app
wouldn't let me in, even with my valid ADC username and password.  I am glad
that Apple is doing it's best (supposedly) to keep up with the GNU gcc.  I
look forward to the official 3.1 release from Apple.  I'm sure it will be
better than having to build it ourselves via CVS.  I hear several other big
changes are in store for OS X.2.

   Jeff

> ----------
> From:         Martin Costabel
> Sent:         Sunday, April 14, 2002 7:14 AM
> To:   Finlay Dobbie
> Cc:   '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject:      Re: [Fink-users] Fink update-all with new gcc
> 
> (Cut down on CC list; otherwise we'll start a a duplicate list; and Jeff
> Hester's address isn't working for me anyway)
> 
> Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>  
> > Actually, they're merging in upstream GCC quite frequently, or at least
> > were, and GCC 3.1 is set to go final RSN (tomorrow according to
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html, but apparently they're not going to
> > make that and are slipping the release date by about 2 weeks). OTOH, it
> > will continue moving along at quite a rapid pace, and I expect that it
> > won't be usable until about 3.1.1 or later (a few months down the line,
> > in other words). Since Apple seems to be set on shipping gcc3.1 in the
> > next major OS release, it'll be interesting to see the quality of the
> > version that we receive.
> 
> My interpretation of the few cryptic remarks I saw is the following (I
> may be wrong, of course):
> 
> Apple's forthcoming release will be based on the "nervous weasel" branch
> of their cvs tree, not on the trunk. In the trunk, they are trying to
> keep up with GNU, so there will eventually be an Apple gcc-3.1 based on
> FSF's released gcc-3.1. The branch, however, was forked sometime in
> March and is (or calls itself) "based on gcc version 3.1 20020105
> (experimental)". That's why I suspect the "experimental" will still be
> there for quite a while.
> 
> -- 
> Martin
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