------- Comment #18 from bkoz at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-01-16 18:46 -------
The ammount of breakage for this change is IMHO tolerable and will within the tolerances of other breakages that nobody is talking about reverting, and furthermore solutions for the API change are well documented. Certainly, the demonstrated breakage for the pre-iso header removal in fedora builds is about 8 packages, less than most of the individual FE changes in either 4.2 or 4.3. I believe there is a bit of a bias here, in that it's OK to make FE changes, but even well-documented and warned lib changes are not ok? What's up with that? I assert the right to make API changes, including removal of deprecated items. I believe my rationale in #6 has been missed by all. Please directly respond to this, and tell me why it's ok to remove flags and things like max/min in the C++FE, and not ok to remove deprecated headers in libstdc++. I am opposed to wholesale re-instatement of the pre-iso headers, and would like to close this as WONTFIX. From fedora build failure analysis, only two are important: iostream.h and fstream.h. If i am to be over-ruled on this issue, then please only reinstate these two. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33831
