On 9/2/06, Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/2/06, Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/2/06, Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 9/2/06, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Give us about 3000 more developers, and sure* ;)
> >
> > I don't think that that's good thing to be saying to our users.
>
> Is it a bad thing to be saying to your developers?
It wasn't said to developers, it was said to a user.
It was in response to gimli, who unless he stole his @g.o address is a
developer.
> The gcc-4.1 stabilization bug has been open for a month and a half.
That's great, but that's not an announcement. Folks aren't going to
go digging through bugs to find stuff like this.
> Thats fairly good notice...
Only to the folks who knew about that bug. For the wider community
... it's not notice.
The wider community will not be effected until they manually make the
switch to 4.1, just like any other gcc upgrade. Before doing this one
would assume they would do a little research.
> Warnings have also appeared on
> planet.gentoo.org, and in the GWN.
Tsunam posted that there was a push on to get gcc-4.1 stable, but
there was no target date, and no firm statement that said it would
definitely be happening. He posted this on July 19th. Was there
another warning, with dates and stuff?
The GWN warning was last week. My apologies if there was an earlier
one that I missed.
My apologies, but I've been unable to find an announcement on -dev.
I do not know if there was on on -dev, I remember hearing for a little
while now that 2006.1 was going to be gcc-4.1.1, but I don't remember
if I read that or heard it in the -x86 irc channel, it may have been
there which doesn't really count :) Beyond the stabilization warnings
however, I would think that gcc-4.1.1 entering unstable (which had a
number of announcements IIRC) should be warning to all users that it
was now on track to be stable, and to be prepared.
I really do not see what kind of further warning was necessary or even
possible... maybe I'm missing something. (Other than the
yet-to-be-implemented GLEP42 of course)
Dan,
Best regards,
Stu
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