Re: Re - vni25c gcc33 issue

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Carsten Kuckuk wrote:

> >> it's a prerelease version from the 3.3 branch which was on stage3
> >> (http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#stage3). This is really not nice but was
> >> needed to keep the same compiler for ix86 and x86-64. As SuSE Linux 8.2
> >> will be available for Athlon64 and Opteron processors this was a must
> >> have.
>
> I strongly urge you to reconsider either the gcc version or the shipment
> date of SuSE 8.2. If you ship SuSE 8.2 with a non-release version of gcc,
> this will mean that all professional and business users will have to avoid
> using your distro, as they will not get any support from their other
> software suppliers. The company I work for sells software for the
> construction industry. Some of our products use the relational databases
> Oracle and Sybase, and some use the object-oriented database ObjectStore.
> When we release our products, we can only release them for platforms that
> our database vendors support. There is a strong interdependence between
> relational databases and the platform compiler when the interface used is
> Embedded SQL. And in the ObjectStore case, the dependence is even greater.
> As Sybase, ObjectStore, and Oracle are US products, the likelyhood that
> they will ever support a non-release version of gcc is pretty slim, even
> more so if no other Linux distro picks exactly the same non-release
> version for their release than you have. They will more likely point to
> Red Hat and other available distributions. So your decision to ship SuSE
> 8.2 with a non-release version of gcc means that no production database
> software will be supported on SuSE 8.2, and in turn no ISV will support
> SuSE 8.2. Enterprise customers will either have to wait for SuSE 8.3, or
> will have to switch to an entirely different Linux distribution. And I'm
> talking client computers here, not servers.

Sorry, I'm not the right person to talk to but SuSE Linux 8.2 is
available now.
And Oracle and others will never going to certify their products on SuSE
Linux Personal/Professional but only on the Enterprise Server.
AFAIK RedHat use the first time since two years an official compiler on
RH9. This is the first time (and hopefully the last time) we use an
unreleased gcc.

But feel free to send your feedback via
http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi


CU,

   Wolfgang

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