On 19/04/2010 15:31, Mark Mitchell wrote: > But, I don't think that plug-ins are yet a useful thing to announce in > what is essentially a "marketing" context. Most users won't be able to > use them yet. We have some infrastructure; we don't have a lot of use > of that infrastructure yet.
Well, to be fair, LTO is in somewhat the same position: works, but isn't a great deal of use /yet/, until people start getting to grips with and using the _potential_ it provides. > More broadly, there are lots of things that didn't make the > announcement. There have been many important improvements since GCC > 4.4.x; they don't all fit in an announcement. But I agree with this: a release announcement is just an email someone sends out after a new release is uploaded, it is not a major PR effort nor a statement of policy nor even something from which to attempt to infer the relative priority of different features. It's just a non-comprehensive brief precis. So if there's a discussion to be had here, it's about how GCC should be "marketed", and the extent to which a release announcement should be part of that effort. cheers, DaveK