On 13/12/2012 12:24, Steven Bosscher wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:43 AM, John Marino wrote:
I don't speak for FreeBSD, but dropping them from Tier 1 support because
they don't use a GPLv3 *BASE* compiler is a bit vindictive.
FreeBSD has dropped GCC for future releases so there's no reason for
it to be a primary platform.
Yes there is good reason for keeping bsd targets. FreeBSD and others
may be moving to llvm, or using older gcc's, for their official binary
builds - but /users/ are still free to pick whatever tools they want.
They are also free to download the source of FreeBSD and compile it
themselves with gcc 4.8 fresh from svn.
Dropping bsd as a target architecture just because the BSD distributions
don't use it is a bit like dropping support for targeting windows just
because Microsoft didn't use gcc to compile Windows 8.
