Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 release date
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/09/2003 17:40:08
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:11:36PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>   =20
>    Also, with gcc 3, haven't we changed libstdc++ and thus its major numb=
er?=20
>    Thus haven't we already inflicted this pain on c++ libraries?
>=20
> would you like to go back to and stay with GCC2 forever?  we don't have
> any real ability to influence libstdc++ so this is completely irrelevant..

No, I wouldn't. :-)

My point wasn't that I was upset that we've done this, it was that the,
"never bump shared libraries" dictum didn't hold. For an extreemely good
reason (I understand that the code doesn't interoperate anymore), but
"never" didn't hold.

Take care,

Bill

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