Peter Burwood wrote:
> 
> In message <3380C2B9.4D23@york.ac.uk>
>           Chris Gilbert <cg110@york.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Shared libs, working, will be released with gcc 2.8 which is due out in
> > a month or so.
> 
> I guess you (Chris Gilbert) got this information about the expected
> release date of gcc 2.8 from one of the RiscBSD chaps. I'm pretty
> certain they should not have mentioned this because it is against the
> FSF policy, which is not to announce releases before they are ready and
> it is unpredicatable when they are ready. Thus, the FSF announces
> releases only when the product is released (since at this point there is
> nothing to predict).
> 
> This is important to understand because 2.8 has been due out in a month
> or so for over a year (though perhaps not always `out in a month' during
> the last year). If everyone had known this, just howmany `when is it
> going to be released' messages do you think would be floating around the
> place ?

Anything I said is my opinion/guesswork, ie shared libs will be out with
2.8, which rumour has that it is out in a month, this rumour taken from
another mailing list.  And is not what any of the RiscBSD team said,
this is me putting 2 and 2 together, and probably getting 5.

Chris