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On 8/24/13 7:19 PM, David Chisnall wrote:
> 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++?

The same work needs to be done no matter where it is..  there is no 
saving in moving it,
and a lot of hassle.. leave the damned thing alone and be thankful 
that we have switched to clang by default!  don't over-reach your 
successes.


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> David
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