On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 14:35, Emile van Bergen wrote: [ big change in Debian? ] > But IMHO, neither does a compiler change, which a non-developer would > not notice at all (except for a few promille speed increase perhaps, and > possibly some problems with building older software). It may matter > greatly to debian developers, but I think the gcc 3.2 transition isn't > all that shocking to the average user. Older software breaking occurs too frequently to warrant any big version number jumps - I fully agree here. And there are too many subsystems that are upgraded from time to time: perl, java, python, C, C++ - all have had their partly or fully incompatible updates in the past. cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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