On May 16, 2005, Robert Dewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After all, you can buy from Dell today a 2.4GHz machine with a 17" > monitor, DVD drive, and 256Meg memory for $299 complete. Sure, some > people cannot even afford that, but it is not clear that the gcc > project can regard this as a major user segment that should be taken > into account.
Just step back for a second and consider that the most common computation platform these days is cell phones. Also consider that a number of cell phone manufacturers are adopting, or considering adopting, GNU/Linux. Consider that at least some of them are going to enable users to download programs into the cell phones and run them. Also consider that not all cell phones are identical. Now wouldn't it be nice to be able to download some useful program in source form and build it locally on your cell phone, while on the road? Sure, few people might be able to accomplish that without a nice building wizard front-end, but that's doable. Would we want GCC to be tool that prevents this vision from coming true? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
