Joe Buck wrote: > With 4.0.0, compiling a complete GNU/Linux distribution reveals bugs > in GCC, but even more bugs in C++ software that is not valid C++. > Assuming we can get the distros to fix the latter set of problems...
I don't have a good solution for this problem, other than education. > ...it would certainly be good for release testing if we built > complete distros, or significant chunks thereof. It would be even > better if this could be coordinated with the people producing all > that software; I think that (for example) GCC and KDE could both do > better about trying each others' early code sooner than we do, and > communicate any problems found. I'm hoping that creating a formal "core software" test might foster some of that communication. We have to start somewhere. ..Scott
