this is not a flame, but a criticism

Article View: gnu.gcc.help

Article #53186

#53186

From: Richard Stallman
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1992 17:28

17 lines
1454 bytes

    I though that you have tested the GCC 2.0, or at least the installation process?

I don't have the resources to retry the bootstrap on each kind of
machine each time a change is made.  I had tried Sun 4 bootstraps
recently, but this bug did not happen.

(I think this bug depended on random factors.  Perhaps my machine
was lucky and the bug wouldn't happen there.)

In general, it is not appropriate to take an attitude of indignation
when certain work that you think is important has not been done on the
GNU project.  GNU is mainly a volunteer project, and if you want more
work to be done, the proper response is to pitch in.

If you would like there to be more thorough testing of GCC before a
release is made, how about volunteering to make a commitment to do
certain kinds of pretesting on new releases?

Technical Details

Message-ID: <9203030928.AA02098@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!sail.stanford.edu!rms

References: <9203021932.AA03268@ipsi.darmstadt.gmd.de>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 11318c,be8bc268de6246a4
X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-03 01:49:30 PST
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!sail.stanford.edu!rms
From: rms@sail.stanford.edu (Richard Stallman)
Subject: this is not a flame, but a criticism
Message-ID: <9203030928.AA02098@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
Reply-To: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
References: <9203021932.AA03268@ipsi.darmstadt.gmd.de>
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1992 17:28:23 GMT
Lines: 18

Reply to Parent Message