GCC 4 Preview in RHEL 4
Posted Feb 24, 2005 4:25 UTC (Thu) by
lakeland (subscriber, #1157)
In reply to:
GCC 4 Preview in RHEL 4 by dowdle
Parent article:
Fedora Core 4 Test 1 slips
The gcc 2.96 fiasco was a big deal. Programs built on redhat could not be
reliably run on any other distro. It worked 99% of the time, almost as if
the other platform was 'unstable'. For people trying to support two
distros, it was a nightmare.
I disagree with your claim that RH's intimate knowledge of GCC allows them
to choose an unreleased version. Sometimes that familiarity means you can
overlook the weaknesses/lack of polish. Just look at how many people are
still running kernel 2.2 or 2.4 -- many people just don't care about
dozens of better features, just about stability, consistancy and
reliability.
Of course, 2.96 was all a long time ago now, and I really don't see
anything wrong with RH including a preview release of a compiler with
their distro -- just as long as it isn't the default.
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