Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Robert Dewar]

Patrick McFarland wrote:

> 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.

But it new versions do not ship on a reasonable schedule, then it is
also not the absolute best. What if no one steps up and fixes Objective-C.
Does that mean no more gcc releases? How does that help anyone?

It seems to me we need less grumbling about Objective-C being broken,
and more constructive help to fix it!