On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:14 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
Peter Robinson wrote:
>> > buildsys(a)redhat.com wrote:
>> > >New package compat-gcc-34
>> > > Compatibility GNU Compiler Collection
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> > Why is this needed in Fedora Core?
>>
>> 1) GCC 3.4.6 is the last one to ship with G77, while Gfortran is quite
>> far
>> even in the Fortran77 compatibility, it is not yet there and some
>> people
>> have huge Fortran77 codebases, not to mention that Gfortran runtime
>> is in any case ABI incompatible with G77 runtime
>> 2) similarly, not all third party C++ sources are ready for GCC 4.1.x, so
>> a secondary compiler is often handy until they manage to rewrite it
>> 3) in the end, all that changed from previous amount of binary packages
>> is the addition of one new src.rpm - as many compat-gcc-32 subpackages
>> were nuked at the same time as the number of added compat-gcc-34
>> subpackages
>
>
> So it was added just for Fortran77? If this is the case why can't it
> be in extras as I'm pretty sure there are no dependancies on Fortran
> in Core. Also does it mean it replaces the compat-gcc-32 packages?
No it's very useful to C++ developpers.
No doubt.
Unlike C, there are important
changes between g++ 3.x and g++ 4, some that sometimes require massive
rewrites.
Yes, but ... that's what I call low quality source bases ;)
I think this belongs in Core, as a replacement to compat-gcc-32.
I think, it belongs into Extras, to make such low quality sources in
Core apparent. To end-users, it doesn't matter if it's in Core or
Extras.
Ralf