From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 13:21:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA02088 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:21:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA02059 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA18687; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:20:20 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA02907; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:20:18 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id VAA04155; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:59:33 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603192059.VAA04155@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Quality of BSD software To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:59:33 +0100 (MET) Cc: lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br (Lenzi Sergio) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Lenzi, Sergio" at Mar 19, 96 11:26:51 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Lenzi, Sergio wrote: (You forgot to mention their mail address.) > > We do not support Linux or FreeBSD, primarily due to the > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > quality of the compilers that work with these operating systems. > Can someone please evaluate this and perhaps convince the Win/U that > BSD has "quality" compilers??? Impossible. They don't *want* to be convinced. gcc does have its odds and ends, but i don't think it's an overstatemant to call it ``leading technology'' for C compilers (together with only a few commercial ones, and they are surprisingly close to gcc by design). So if the Wind/U people think that it's a low quality compiler, they clearly state that they simply don't have the least interest in your request, despite of the introductionary flowers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)