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Date:      Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:12:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, developers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.2 in progress 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209011712090.12665-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <20020902000202.10E4A2A893@canning.wemm.org>

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> Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > > > Yes, as best as I can.
> > > >
> > > > But I didn't see a GCC 3.2 import on anyone's bullet list.
> > >
> > > To quote Robert Watson:
> > >
> > > > My list basically consists of:
> > > > General
> > > >   - GEOM as default storage management on all platforms, related
> > > >     dependencies
> > > >   - Switch in sysinstall to easily turn on ufs2
> > > >   - Final resolution of any perl removal related problems
> > > >   - rcNG as the default boot mechanism
> > > >   - New gcc?
> > 
> > Small bullet item.
> 
> Alexander is new at working within our operation so we should give him some
> room to get fully up to speed.  I'm glad that somebody other than me is
> dealing with this. :-)
> 
> We really did need this to be done before 5.0-R as the gcc prerelease was a
> bit of a showstopper when it cannot compile a whole bunch of 'must have'
> packages.  (eg: KDE etc)
> 
> Lets say that developer awareness of the pending import should have been
> dealt with better and chalk it up as a learning experience.




Of course. And being accused of 'trolling' is also a learning
experience.
> 


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