[haiku-development] Re: GCC 2 x GCC 4

Hey,

this debate seems to be starting again and again, with no results at all.

David McPaul wrote:

The debate was about whether we should compile Haiku with GCC4 instead of GCC2.
For the DR1, definitely not. There are only a few people using GCC4 systems and those hardly work full time on these systems. Unfortunately we have some behavior differences between the two versions (consider firewire, cortex/tracker crashes, etc.). Talking about myself only, I have Haiku currently up for maximum 10 minutes to debug on my freshly generated images, I have no clue about stability or such on a daily basis, GCC4 that is.
As the core developers (meaning Axel, Ingo, Stephan, etc.) seem to use GCC2 still, it does not make sense to force them to switch now. I guess they weren't even willing too. If I am wrong, please tell me, I'd be delighted if one of you use GCC4. 


Including GCC 4 libraries and compiler in addition to GCC2 libraries
and compiler on DR1 is a seperate issue.
AFAIK it's not even possible to build the gcc2 libraries yourself and embed them into the image, currently it downloads the optional package Ingo provides. So there seems to be a lot of work missing until we get this all set up, uhm meaning until Ingo sets this up :P
Don't get me wrong, I am one of the persons crying for GCC4 as much as possible. But from a release point of view, I'd more like to see the first release out, than needing to add 2-3 more months for this feature. 

Maurice

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