RE: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-12 Thread Fernando Monera
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Don Head wrote: [...] I have no clue how many patches they've applied to however many pieces of software they have in the distro. You think they're afraid to patch gcc? NO! They'll add patch after patch, and even move to 2.97 if needed. They will make sure that the

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Mattias Eriksson
At 11 October, 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Mattias Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this means that you are not going to release another stable release of Mandrake before gcc-3.0 is released? Or does it mean that you are kicking the gcc developers in the groin and release the

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Mattias Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] It mean we going to take a highly patched/fixed/modified version of gcc2.96 if gcc3.0 is not ready, we going to usethe save version that the leader has, period. OK, so what you are saying is that by introducing gcc-2.96 you are

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Meir Faraj
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote: Mattias Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] It mean we going to take a highly patched/fixed/modified version of gcc2.96 if gcc3.0 is not ready, we going to usethe save version that the leader has, period. OK, so what you are saying is that by

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Jason Straight
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote: At 11 October, 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Mattias Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this means that you are not going to release another stable release of Mandrake before gcc-3.0 is released? Or does it mean that you are kicking the gcc

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Fernando Monera
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mattias Eriksson wrote: I cant see what cooker and in the long run Mandrake would gain from this. What I can see is that alot of people that is just running some packages from cooker, while still prefering to use stable core libs cant continue to use any cooker software.

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Mattias Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cant see what cooker and in the long run Mandrake would gain from this. What I can see is that alot of people that is just running some packages from cooker, while still prefering to use stable core libs cant continue to use any cooker software.

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Mattias Eriksson
At 11 October, 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Mattias Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cant see what cooker and in the long run Mandrake would gain from this. What I can see is that alot of people that is just running some packages from cooker, while still prefering to use stable core

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Bryan Paxton
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote: Mattias Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cant see what cooker and in the long run Mandrake would gain from this. What I can see is that alot of people that is just running some packages from cooker, while still prefering to use stable core libs cant

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Mattias Eriksson
At 11 October, 2000 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: OK, so what you are saying is that by introducing gcc-2.96 you are prepaired to do the same thing as RedHat and release a gcc snapshot as the stable compiler in a Mandrake release against the recomendations from the gcc developers. No,

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Mattias Eriksson
At 11 October, 2000 Jason Straight wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote: At 11 October, 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Mattias Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this means that you are not going to release another stable release of Mandrake before gcc-3.0 is released? Or does

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Antony Suter
Mattias Eriksson wrote: In what way will it be better prepaired for gcc3? gcc3.0 have a lot of parts redesigned and rewritten. Block reordering optimisation and other stuff. It will be all this gcc code that will be thoroughly tested by having it in cooker as soon as possible. I can accept

RE: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Don Head
But would they release a Mandrake with a unstable kernel? He said that if gcc3 is not released, Mandrake will release a unstable gcc for the next release. Since I dont know the roadmap for gcc3 I don't know how big this risk is. Does anyone know about when they plan to release gcc3? If

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

2000-10-11 Thread Spencer
Don Head wrote: But would they release a Mandrake with a unstable kernel? He said that if gcc3 is not released, Mandrake will release a unstable gcc for the next release. Since I dont know the roadmap for gcc3 I don't know how big this risk is. Does anyone know about when they plan

Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk (note on optimizing)

2000-10-10 Thread Tim McKenzie
So, as for me, the biggest problem is "will it break a lot of things" against "will it fix a lot of things". A thing that would be nice would -O3 -mpentiumpro that works on C++ (gcc-2.95.2 has pb with this) Last thing, if perl/ruby/ocaml/emacs works, i don't give a damn what the poor C