Re: [Fresco-devel] small patch for iso c++ header

Tobias Hunger wrote:
> On Sunday 02 February 2003 01:53, Neil Pilgrim wrote:

> > Well I use 2.9x atm, with omni3. I've got gcc3.2 installed from debs,
> > but not omni4 yet - are the omni4 debs in unstable in the gcc3-abi
> > format?
> 
> Yes, the omni4-debs use the g++-3.2 ABI. They work great for me together with
> g++ 3.2 from debs.

Thanks for confirming that...apart from you getting that strange bug
with the text demo ;)

> > Much as I'm normally for an upgrade to a better system, how much would
> > such a change affect *potential* testing by new people? "Oh sorry, you
> > can't use gcc2.95 to compile fresco, upgrade your compiler (and all your
> > C++ libs) before coming back to us!" ;)
> 
> It's not that big a deal anymore IMHO. Debian is switching, Redhat has
> switched, so did SuSE afaik.

Well, see bug235 where gcc2.95/omni3 gives a bug and gcc3/omni4 doesn't
- it could be that this is an omni bug, but it could also be that omni3
is just good at showing the bug - which possibly might be a good reason
to keep old-system support around a while longer: it is another test
system under which bugs might present themselves.

In fact, it strikes me as strange that Tobias sees the problem with the
text demo, and bug235 is concerned with a text misbehaviour, but perhaps
that is just a coincidence :)

-- 
Neil