DRAGONFLY 1.2 RELEASED!

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai asmodai at wxs.nl
Mon Apr 11 04:10:50 PDT 2005


-On [20050410 22:02], walt (wa1ter at xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>I've always wondered why the same configuration could not (or should not) be
>applied to gcc34 temporarily so as to avoid the ports crisis while allowing
>DF to default to gcc34.

Because people are lazy and having such a fall back mechanism will only
serve as a crutch right now where there are not that many people submitting
override ports to make the best out of the DragonFly specific features.

Not just that, but given how our code base is diverging we might miss
optimisation as well as running itno FreeBSD specific work-arounds/hacks.
(Take apr for example.)

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