I know this thread has progressed beyond the actual situation I asked about, but I wanted to just throw in my opinion too.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:13:24AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > A program is IMHO not only specified by the fact that it does certain > transformations from input to output, but also by the speed it does > this. If this specification can be matched by gcc, why consider using > icc at all? And if not, it requires icc. This is now also my point of view. When I started this thread, I also _felt_ that contrib was the correct place for my application, but didn't really know why. Now I can explain it better. The proposal of keeping one version in main and one in contrib also addresses my concern about usability. So, I am happy with the outcome of this discussion already. =) -- Wesley W. Terpstra