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David O'Brien wrote:
> > >It was my understanding that FreeBSD 5.0 release was not going
> > >to be GCC 3.3 (because GCC 3.3 would not be released in time for
> > >FreeBSD to not be "pulling a RedHat" if they shipped a beta and
> > >called it 3.3) , might be GCC 3.2, and was currently down-rev
> > >from there.
> 
> 3.3.0 will be released before FreeBSD 5.1.  It is my advice to
> FreeBSD'ville that we go with a GCC 3.3 snapshot for FBSD 5.0 and a GCC
> 3.3.0 release for FBSD 5.1.  That way we can get the new features of 3.3
> into our 5.x branch.  AND get bug fixes by importing 3.3.1 and 3.3.2 into
> later FBSD 5.x releases.

This would be my preference, but it would be stupid for me to
try to volunteer someone else to do the work.

IMO, FreeBSD 5.0 will not be able to gain market acceptance
until the 5.1 release, in any case.

-- Terry

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