Re: Next GNUstep release?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> To scale this discussion down a bit. The only thing that currently stops
> you from using an older version of gcc. Is the GCC_VERSION variable in
> the Version file of base. I am not aware of any specific change that
> would deliberately break older compilers. It is just that we don't
> officially support them any more. There is nothing stopping you to
> change that variable and try to use GNUstep with an older version of
> gcc. What we wont do is process bug reports that result out of such tests.
Sounds fine. I shall do some builds.

> As for releasing gui and back for the last base release, we just missed
> the point to do so. It would have been possible right after the last
> base release, but now the code in gui is only tested with the SVN
> version of base and although I am again not aware of anything that
> changed in base that is required by gui, it is left to daring users to
> really test this. What we should aim for is to have a set of modules
> that work together. If the gui version also works well with an older
> base version, fine.
Well, but we didn't release back then... it becomes a bit inconsistent.
Perhaps we should do some tests against the past base release

> So far there has been only Riccardo's reply whether there should be a
> release at all. Those this mean we shouldn't do a shared release now?
> Then we could thing about just a gui/back release, which shoudl make
> Riccardo happy.
I do wonder indeed. Perhaps we are too busy arguing about gcc 
compatibility that we are missing the original point of the thread.

Riccardo