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> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 00 16:20:16 CDT > From: msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov) > gcc is bigger and has many more people interested in its > development, so Cygnus didn't take over its development and do it > behind closed doors. First they synchronised their work on it (in > their internal Cygnus tree) with the FSF maintainers. Then in late > 1997 they created an open development project for it which they > named EGCS. It was run by Cygnus and competed with FSF's gcc > project. Finally, in spring 1999 FSF closed their gcc project and > EGCS was renamed into GCC. This bit is not correct. EGCS was never 'run by' Cygnus. It has always been run by a steering committee on which Cygnus has been careful to ensure that its employees were never a majority. > Unfortunately, the GCC (former EGCS) maintainers seem to not have > grasped yet that this arrangement is troublesome and just plain > wrong. Well, I for one would like to see a combined tree. -- - Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com
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