> Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 23:14:20 -0400 > From: Eli Schwartz via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> > > Second of all, why is this GCC's problem? You are not a user of GCC, > apparently.
He is telling you that removing support for these old features, you draw users away from GCC and towards proprietary compilers. One of the arguments in this thread _for_ dropping that support was that by not rejecting those old programs, GCC draws some users away from GCC. He is telling you that this change will, perhaps, draw some people to GCC, but will draw others away from GCC. The difference is that the former group will start using Clang, which is still free software (at least some of its versions), whereas the latter group has nowhere to go but to proprietary compilers. So the FOSS community will have suffered a net loss. Something to consider, I think.
