On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From recent experience it is my estimation that a gcc upgrade sets 5.0 > development back a month (that is, the last GCC upgrade kept *me* from > working productively for around a month due to various this thats and > the others). If that's what people want, that's fine. I could also be > totally wrong, and this won't break things. I'm just a bit startled > that this appears out of nowhere (I sure don't recall it being > discussed) and just happens, with 10 minutes warning. Matt, the change was discussed several times on developers@, so this import is hardly 'out of nowhere'. > This is, IMO, why FreeBSD is not going to be very successful. You > cannot just make major toolchain changes w/o at least *some* belief > that this is going to be done well. Did you do a dryrun with the > import before checking things in? About five buildworlds on i386 and two on Alpha. Does that count as dry runs? -- Alexander Kabaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
