Re: Freeze Goals -- WAS: September release
At 04:47 PM 7/17/99 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:12:50PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 othman@cs.wustl.edu wrote:
>>
>> > I know of at least two sets of packages that will break. My ACE and
>> > TAO packages will break since there is a bug in gcc 2.95 that occurs
>> > when a user overloads the C++ new operator with exception handling
>>
>> APT is also uncompilable with the new G++, lots of little things that I'm
>> not certain if they are compiler bugs or language requirements..
>
>So, can the new g++ hold off for a couple of months, or do we really
>need to have the newest possible version (complete with unknown
>problems.)
This isn't a freeze yet, you know. Freezes have taken months, why extend
them arbitrarily longer? It won't be a couple months - the people in the
know have said that September isn't even plausable. How long did Slink's
freeze take again?
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