Subject: Re: 1.3 -> current
To: Johnny Chi-Lung Lam <jlbg+@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/16/1998 18:30:53
Johnny Chi-Lung Lam wrote:
> 
> > What's the problems with 1.3 that is causing you to want to
> > track -current? There've been a lot of improvements but I
> > run pretty much nothing but 1.3 binaries and I even have
> > an alpha or two that have been running GENERIC from 1.3
> > for months w/o problems.
> 
> I mostly interested in tracking the egcs port since I'm looking for a
> fairly compliant, C++ compiler.  gcc-2.7.2.2 in 1.3 isn't quite enough
> for my purposes.
> 
>  

Uh, yeah. No kidding. Interesting. I took your mail to be
a an 'indictment' of 1.3 (on the alpha).