Glenn Lagasse wrote:
* Ian Collins (i...@ianshome.com) wrote:
Glenn Lagasse wrote:
* ken mays (maybird1...@yahoo.com) wrote:
Hello,
Since developers are getting more involved in using the GCC compiler
and especially the GCC 4.4.x compilers, I started wondering why not
migrate to GCC 4.4.x sooner than later?? We have more community
developers building, testing, and reporting on GCC 4.4.x than before.
What is the price of admission for users/developers to enter the gates
of GCC 4.4.x ??
Well, it's not 4.4.x but 4.3.2 is available in 2009.06.
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/en/search.shtml?token=gcc&action=Search
As Ken says, 4.4.x is where all the gcc effort is going, especially with
C++. Shouldn't OpenSolaris be moving with the times?
Of course it should. And at some point, I'm sure 4.4.x (or whatever the
most recent version available is at the time the person doing the
integrating sees) will hit the repositories. However, 4.3.2 is a nice
upgrade from the 3.4.3 that was in 2008.11 wouldn't you say?
This is where my confusion rests - SUNWgcc is still 3.4.3, it is
through the development package that 4.3.3 gets loaded, are they
both supported ? I'm confused because SUNWgcc seems distinctly
directed as core part of OS, whereas, development/gcc seems to
have a "you're on your own" feel.
Things don't happen at the snap of a finger. Those that want things to
move faster are free to step up and contribute to making them go faster
:-)
For instance, one could use the sourcejucr project to contribute spec
files for more recent versions of gcc. Then after testing and approval
those built packages could move into the contrib repo and viola, nice
and crunchy gcc bits for all to use.
Cheers,
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