From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: off-topic (wandering away from GNAT and GCC 3.02)
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:00:09 +0100
Date: 2002-01-05T13:00:09+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878zbdatyu.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C35C0BF.12B9FDE@spamcop.net
Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@spamcop.net> writes:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> It is certainly a bad idea to use RPMs at this stage. If these RPMs
>> were built on a bad day, you can get into arbitrary problems.
>
> Like the advice to never buy a car assembled on Monday morning
> or Friday afternoon?
No, the problem with the GCC CVS is less esoteric, I think. It's
software in (sometiems heavy) development. Rather static RPM
snapshots are a bit like lottery. (I don't know how much pre-release
testing is done on these RPMs, though.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-05 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-02 19:04 GNAT and GCC 3.02 Mr. Caffiene
2002-01-02 19:41 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-02 21:46 ` Florian Weimer
2002-01-03 9:49 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2002-01-03 11:40 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-03 13:06 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-03 14:44 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-03 15:27 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-03 15:38 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-03 21:49 ` Florian Weimer
2002-01-03 21:47 ` Florian Weimer
2002-01-04 14:48 ` off-topic (wandering away from GNAT and GCC 3.02) Wes Groleau
2002-01-05 12:00 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
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