In message <199904080049.raa76...@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >In article <xfmail.990407210734.asmo...@wxs.nl>, Jeroen >Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmo...@wxs.nl> wrote: > >> This raises an interesting point I think. Do we need to maintain >> gcc/egcs compatibility? Or do we, since we track CURRENT, say: >> "alas, that's progression for ye?" > >Yep, alas, that's progression for ye. We have never supported mix >& match of sourceballs from different releases. We do our best >to support running old executables on newer systems, but that's a >completely different issue. > >> Has there been an `official' consensus reached about this from core or >> commiters? > >I am only speaking for John Polstra, a compiler guy, here.
I agree. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
