Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 12:47:59AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> But the problem is that templates, nor exceptions or rtti (which are all
> elements of MODERN C++ programming) don't work well enough on the GNU
> platform...

It would be silly to try to use all features of such a complex language as
C++ in a single program. The features exist to support your style of OO
programming, whatever this is. Only very complicated projects would want to
make use of such features in a way that current egcs can't handle.

And note that development will just start. By the time this project enters a
critical stage, egcs will be improved again.

Thanks,
Marcus

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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>