From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 19 11:39:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0204F37B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:39:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381AB43F13 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:39:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13097 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:39:45 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030119123751.00d4cc00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:39:33 -0700 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just read the 5.0-RELEASE announcement, and was astonished to see the following in the list of features: - The GCC 3.2.1 compiler provides the latest installment of the ever-improving GNU Compiler Collection. FreeBSD's dependency upon the FSF's code is a bug, not a feature, and should not be touted as the latter. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message