From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 02:04:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FED16A415 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:04:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.org [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1671043CB4 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:02:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBF24bdh035071; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.8/8.13.7/Submit) id kBF24aEN035070; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:04:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:04:36 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "O. Hartmann" Message-ID: <20061215020436.GB33730@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" References: <20061213192150.CF83D16A417@hub.freebsd.org> <200612131440.04076.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <4580766A.600@samsco.org> <200612131711.50921.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <458101C4.8090106@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <458101C4.8090106@zedat.fu-berlin.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Let's use gcc-4.2, not 4.1 -- OpenMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:04:42 -0000 On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:48:20AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > I'm not very familiar with the compiler development, but it seemed to > me gcc 4.1 was like a interim solution. This arose due to the fast > appeareance of it's successor ... The goal is more frequent major (ie, X.Y.0 -> X.Y+1.0) releases. Like our 4.0 -> 5.0 experience, GCC when thru similar with its 2.95 -> 3.0.0 release. As much new FreeBSD features are developed in an alternate repository (Perforce) after 5.0, GCC makes heavy use of developement branches which are only merged into the mainline (think our CVS HEAD repository) when they are ready for prime-time. You can read the development methodology and rationale at http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)