Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?
On 2007-08-13 14:40:57 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> There's a big difference: GCC is useless for the end user. And
>> I don't think that old GCC versions are really necessary.
>
> They are if you need to compile old software. Some stuff just won't
> build with newer GCC versions.
But
1. Such software is not from Debian.
2. Such software probably uses non-standard features, in which case
this is not GCC's fault or the fault of the C language. FYI, GCC 4
still supports K&R (pre-standard) C constructs (-traditional and
-traditional-cpp options) and trigraphs (-trigraphs option).
3. You do not need GCC at run time: you can install old GCC versions
on some machine compile old software there, and use it on other
machines, even those that don't have enough disk space for GCC.
> Also, your end users are clearly different than mine. My users compile
> stuff pretty frequently, often crusty old software used by some research
> project or other.
I also compile things frequently, even not recent software, but I have
never had any problem with GCC 4.x (except bugs, of course, but they
end up in being fixed, and every software has bugs anyway).
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