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

[Uoti Urpala]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 01:00 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> And the reason that we will *NOT* drop support for gcc 2.95 is that we
> have traditionally insisted on supporting it and there is only a small

That's hardly a reason...

> minority that sees a reason to stop doing that.
> 
> Now drop this silly subject and stop wasting everybody's time, including
> your own.  Several seasoned developers have spoken up in favor of
> keeping gcc 2.95 support, none have voted against it.  I recall at least
> Michael, Reimar, Rich, Roberto and myself in favor of gcc 2.95 and only

I don't remember Michael expressing a clear opinion in either direction.
You, Reimar and Roberto basically said you thought the cost of support
was low, saying little about any positive value of support.

> Please stop flaming now, this is getting nowhere.  I'm sure Rich will

I don't think I've been flaming except in some mails with Rich, the
recent ones of which haven't been directly about dropping gcc-2.95
support anyway.

> enjoy going back and forth with you on IRC, but this mailing list is not
> the place to continue this discussion.

The recent mails with Rich have not been about gcc-2.95 support, mostly
about C features.

The main question I want an answer to regarding 2.95 is when do you
intend to drop support for 2.95 then? Do you see C99 features as
worthless, so that they'll never be used in MPlayer even when nobody is
using 2.95 any more? Your argument by "low cost of support" doesn't
refer at all to the current situation being any different from that.