Bug#82042: Will PGCC get into Debian?
Peter Paluch writes:
> Package: gcc
> Version: 1:2.95.2-13
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I would be very glad to see PGCC packages included in Debian. After all,
> there already is a huge amount of packages for programming and development
> in Debian (what makes Debian a perfect platform for software development),
> so why not include also the PGCC? It's probably not so unstable, and it may
> even help the PGCC project to grow up and mature.
I don't see a good reason to include pgcc in Debian. Currently I see
the following disadvantages:
- Just another compiler in the distribution. We currently have
gcc-2.7.2.3, which we still need for 2.0 kernels, we have 2.95.3 as
our standard compiler. We need to include egcs-1.1.2, if 2.2 and
2.4 kernels really need it, and 3.0 will be included as the next
standard compiler.
- pgcc would be the only compiler generating incompatible code for the
standard build architecture i386-linux.
- in previous discussions on debian-devel, the pgcc mandators never
posted any concrete data how much better pgcc would perform (For
current comparisions, please compare with the gcc HEAD branch).
I intend to close this report unless there are other arguments.
(What could work: submit a .dpatch to the current gcc2.95/gcc2.97,
which is included in the source package, but never applied by
default, and commit you on maintaining this patch. So everybody could
build gcc with this patch applied. However I am unsure, who gets
an advantage from this procedure instead of building pgcc on its own).
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