site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com André On 17-Feb-06, at 23:26 , Andrew Pinski wrote: This is a joke really because it was rushed by management and the software is no where near ready. Look at the compiler for an example, Apple did not update to a newer version of GCC during that time which means they are behind in speed in general anyways. Projects got pushed back because of this switch. An example is the move to dwarf2 debugging and multiple other things. Nine months is not enough time to do a proper release of any kind of big software as Mac OS X. -- Pinski A GCC developer which gets little credit from Apple for keeping GCC working on Darwin (even on x86 lately). _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/ajmas%40sympatico.ca _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I am not sure that it was only nine months. MacOS X has been compiled in parallel as an Intel binary since its introduction. I suspect that the reason they didn't use the latest GCC was for reasons of stability. I have already had to program for Solaris during the time they were going from their non-ANSI C++ compiler to their ANSI C++ compiler, and it cause many headaches. With such a large project it makes more sense to stick to something that works, to get things working and then concentrate on upgrading the technology afterwards. Trying to develop with too many unknowns is recipie for disaster. Nine months of really hard work by the folks at Apple, who rightly decided that it was more important to deliver a kick-ass x86 operating system than to spend forever trying to package the sources for third-party consumption. This email sent to ajmas@sympatico.ca This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com