Why two GCCs in FC1??

[Alexander Grekhov]

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Alexander Grekhov wrote:
> 
>>Still I think it would be less confusing and 
>>more logical to release 2.4.x-based FC1 with GCC 3.2.x and move on to 
>>kernel 2.6.x and GCC 3.3.x in FC2.
> 
> 
> That is not far more logical.  That would throw away 6 months of 
> compiler technology development and improvements if not more, and 
> delay them from being widely used by people for another 3-6 
> months or more.  There is no valid good technical reason to do 
> that.
> 
> Fedora Core is for shipping new technology, and that is what we 
> plan to do.  

Point taken.

> So, while your frustration is registered and noted, your solution 
> is not viable, and is not in line with the Fedora Project's 
> stated goals of using new technology.

It's not frustration (yet?), I was just wondering, being unfamiliar with 
the development issues that you distro builders are facing.

I am a sysadmin, at the moment I maintain eight production Linux servers 
(among other things) running four different versions of RedHat. Having 
to work around the quirks of different versions gets old pretty quickly.

I just finished downloading FC1 last night, will play with it this weekend.

> "I can't figure out how to compile my kernel" is not a valid 
> reason to throw away perfectly stable working new technology.

As long as it *stable* -- I'm OK with that. I have no problems 
rebuilding my OpenBSD servers from source.

Regards,

Alexander