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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:19:22 +0100
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
Cc:        toolchain@FreeBSD.org, Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>, FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: GCC withdraw
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On 24 Aug 2013, at 11:30, "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I vote, let's not give ourselves the burden of "lugging" dead =
weight in
> base
> for another 5 years. (in 2017 do we still want to be worrying about =
gcc in
> base?)

Perhaps more to the point, in 2017 do we want to be responsible for =
maintaining a fork of a 2007 release of gcc and libstdc++?

David




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