Re: Why is 2.95 still around?
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:24:07AM -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:08:22PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
>
> > I'm curious why gcc-2.95 or even gcc-3.3 is still in the archives? Is
> > there a mistrust for newer stuff or something related to stability as
> > is the case with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels? Thanks...
>
> Because some people may still have legacy source code that requires one
> of those versions to build, and they aren't yet ready to port that code
> to a newer compiler.
Or we might have new source code and users of that code with legacy
compilers and we want to make sure that the code compiles and works
with the old compiler...
/Daniel
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