> > GCC uses are the ones developed in the egcs days. Remember the old > > days when the location of the development tree and the snapshots was > > a secret, and people were threatened with banning if they let it out? > > Are you serious? Why would it be handled that way?
It's hard to remember back to those days, but basically it was because of concerns people wouldn't appreciate the fact that the development versions were just that and known to be buggy, would use them anyway, and badmouth GCC. Now it's quite common to have these sorts of "unstable" versions of Free Software out there, so people are aware of this, but back then this was more "uncharted territory".
