Re: When should support for the older 2.95.x compilers be deprecated?

[Riccardo Mottola]

on 4/23/04 2:38 AM, Gregory John Casamento at greg_casamento@yahoo.com
wrote:

> How many distributions use versions of gcc < 3.0 as their primary compilers?
> 
> When should the end-of-life be for these?

MkLinux R2
OpenBSD 3.4
NetBSD 1.6.x

I know at least about these.

I think *BSD will stick quite a long around.

MkLinux R3 should probably pass to gcc 3.0 at least, maybe directly to 3.4.

3.4 Is giving many hopes. I read that openBSD will stick along with 2.95 for
quite a while. In fact upcoming 3.5 will have still 2.x. While openBSD 2.0
has already 3.3 in test.

OpenBSD guys have hight hopes in 3.4, many critics they have against
switching could be solved. But I guess it needs some testing and it isn't
going to happen soon.

NetBSD 1.6.2 is rock-stable and I expect it will be used for some time in
the future, even if 2.0 will be out. There are still people using 1.5 from
what I glance in the NetBSD mailing lists...

-Ric