Ben Collins wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:03:45PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Happy new year to everyone! > > > > gcc 2.95.3 appeared in Sid, but it hasn't been announced by the > > GCC steering committee yet. Is this some kind of early access > > version? > > It's based on the CVS branch, which is noted in the changelog if you had > bothered to read it.
To read the changelog I have to download and install it. But I don't like to install unknown compilers on my development machines. Especially since there is no undo operation for dpkg -i. > There's no such thing as "early access", this is > open source you know :) > My (personal) definition for 'Early Access Software' is that somebody has grabbed a more or less stable version with the knowledge of the maintainers before the official release date. I cannot see why this definition shouldn't be applicable to GPL software. Regards Harri
