Fedora Core 5 Test 3 Slip

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Sun Feb 5 16:59:56 UTC 2006


> I am also very concerned about the delay in the release of GCC-4.1 (no release 
> candidate yet), expecting FC5-final to include a compiler that has a wide 
> level of exposure to testing. Having GCC-4.1-cvs-xxx would make users 
> uncomfortable, and without bringing back the old RedHat ghost of gcc-2.96, I 
> remind you that FC4 was released with a compiler blacklisted by the KDE 
> project, which incidentally was one of the reasons for me and my institution 
> to skip FC4 altogether and stay with FC3 until FC5 is released. 

That doesn't show a lot of knowledge on your institutions part though ;(
KDE blacklisted that gcc for ONE bug, a bug fixed in the RH rpms
already. 




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