From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 27 01:36:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00923 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00912 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:36:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (d96-072.orchard2.ucdavis.edu [169.237.96.72]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA06017; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id IAA02511; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 08:36:12 GMT Message-ID: <19980727013611.B2316@nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:36:11 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Glenn Johnson , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: egcs Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199804091918.OAA09027@symbion.srrc.usda.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199804091918.OAA09027@symbion.srrc.usda.gov>; from Glenn Johnson on Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 02:18:30PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry for the long delay.. cleaning up some old mailboxes... > Is there a reason why the egcs port is using snapshots instead of > releases? I find that the egcs 1.0.2-release works quite well, for me Yes, the EGCS developers keep telling me how much better a C++ compiler the snapshots are over the 1.0.2 "release". They claim to have fixed tons of bugs and made many important enhancements. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message