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Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases
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Patrick McFarland |
Subject: |
Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:54:44 -0500 |
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Mark Mitchell wrote:
I would indeed hold up the release because of C++ breakage. C++ is a
release-critical language; Objective-C is not. That's very much
analagous to the fact that IA32 GNU/Linux is a release-critical
platform; other systems like SH ELF are not.
How is Objective-C not a release-critical language?
1) Quite a few people use it
2) GCC is the only useful ObjC compiler out there
3) Apple would rather not deal with GCC dev fucktardism
4) Gnustep would rather not deal with GCC dev fucktardism
The SC has to make some tough decisions, analagous to those that would
be made by product management in a proprietary software development
environment. However, unlike that situation, there's still something
people interested in the de-prioritized feature can do: keep it working.
But GCC isn't a commercial venture. It is an open source project. We
(the open source community) don't have deadlines, we don't need to worry
about making money. All we need to do is worry that our software isn't
the absolute best that we can produce.
And if GCC ships with broken Objective-C, it is not the absolute best.
--
Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || address@hidden
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as
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and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson,
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- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, (continued)
- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Mark Mitchell, 2005/01/25
- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Daniel Berlin, 2005/01/25
- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Daniel Berlin, 2005/01/25
- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Anthony Juckel, 2005/01/25
- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2005/01/25
- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Joe Buck, 2005/01/25
Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Patrick McFarland, 2005/01/25
- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Mark Mitchell, 2005/01/25
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- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Steven Bosscher, 2005/01/25
- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Robert Dewar, 2005/01/25
- Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Gregory John Casamento, 2005/01/25
Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases, Joe Buck, 2005/01/25
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