> Quoth "Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx>: > ... > | But shipping with the GCC4 libs and tool chain included is > definitely > | something I would welcome very much. It is also very easy to do for > us. > | Except for providing the Haiku native GCC 4 tool chain, it is > virtually > | no additional work. > > And it's effectively the same for developers, right? I mean, as long > as > both environments are supported, it doesn't matter very much how the > system > was built, to someone who isn't writing drivers or other internal > stuff? Well it does for some uses. Like, if you want to write a firefox plugin, or a replicant, it better be build with the same gcc as the target app and the (C++ at least, but C libs can in turn use C++ libs) libs it uses... François.