Re: GCC association with the FSF

2021-04-11 Thread Pankaj Jangid
David Brown writes: > So why /do/ people use it? I suspect that one of the biggest reason is > "it's the only compiler that will do the job". For a lot of important > software, such as Linux kernel, it is gcc or nothing. Another big > reason is that gcc comes with their system, which is common

Re: GCC association with the FSF

2021-04-10 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Gabriel Ravier via Gcc writes: >> What is this man? Are you trying to compute the probability of survival >> a project? You forgot to count me. I am one of the users of GCC. If >> there are no users then the project is dead; however heavyweight the >> maintainers are. >> >> And let me also tell y

Re: GCC association with the FSF

2021-04-10 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Jonathan Wakely via Gcc writes: > You are clueless about what the SC actually does, or the control they > have over GCC. I think, it would be great help if someone can document what the SC does.

Re: GCC association with the FSF

2021-04-09 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Gabriel Ravier via Gcc writes: > RMS is not indispensible because he does not contribute to GCC and > doesn't bring much to it, and otherwise takes more away from it. If > you were to remove all of Ian, Jonathan, Joseph and Nathan you would > be removing ~13% of active contribution to GCC (counti

Re: GNU #include RFC

2021-03-30 Thread Pankaj Jangid
y the Chief > GNUisance himself, in occasional online group meetings. (He was very > receptive and supportive to the whole plan, as I hoped and expected :-) > > ... > > Would anyone else be willing to participate as mentor? Sounds like a good beginning (again). But I would participate as a mentee. -- Regards, Pankaj Jangid

Re: Remove RMS from the GCC Steering Committee

2021-03-30 Thread Pankaj Jangid
, and here the project, is bigger than the people. People may come and go, people may saying anything. The project should continue to be lazer focused, and serve the society. -- Regards, Pankaj Jangid