From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 15:28:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat193.154.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.193.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E2A153EF for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:28:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA28233; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:27:38 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:27:38 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Chuck Robey Cc: "David O'Brien" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > It should be too easy to replace the compiler after the system is > > > installed...and shouldn't be seen as a major "hindrance"... > > > > But as Micro$hit knows, being able to check off feature boxes is > > important. Here, the CS dept encourages people that own a PC to install > > a Unix at home (we are still 100% Unix based for classes). When I push > > FreeBSD, I get asked if EGCS comes with it. I say no not by default, but > > we have a very easy to add version of it. They say, why go through the > > trouble if Linux already has it by default. Same for our support > > people. They are the laziest and most non-computer enthusiast group I've > > ever seen. Path of least effort is what wins with them. > > Please keep in mind that if, in our haste, we import a compiler that > puts instability into FreeBSD, then we've drunk poison. The feature > list won't matter, the fact that we're up to date won't matter, the fact > that FreeBSD suddenly, out of the blue, became unstable is the only > thing that anyone will remember. Last I heard, that was what the -current source tree was for...has that changed recently? Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message