[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Drop support for gcc-2.95

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Jul 11 01:05:10 CEST 2006


On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:36:36PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> The people expressing support for 2.95 so far seem to basically argue
> that it should be supported because support doesn't cost anything. While
> the cost of support is not huge it is not insignificant either. I think
> actively maintaining support for obsolete software would require better
> justification.

gcc 2.95 is not obsolete until you can provide something better. Yes
it's old and has some (very few) problems, but the alternatives don't
have fewer problems, just different problems!

Rich




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