On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:42:33PM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like > KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely > compiling a Linux system?
With 4.0.0, compiling a complete GNU/Linux distribution reveals bugs in GCC, but even more bugs in C++ software that is not valid C++. Assuming we can get the distros to fix the latter set of problems, it would certainly be good for release testing if we built complete distros, or significant chunks thereof. It would be even better if this could be coordinated with the people producing all that software; I think that (for example) GCC and KDE could both do better about trying each others' early code sooner than we do, and communicate any problems found.
