Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:55:10 -0500
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> Ouch.  Newer GCCs are memory hungry enough to make them unusable on
> old machines.  I'd prefer if we kept at least one gcc 2.x release
> available.

Unfortunately, we had two partial releases - 2.95.2 was missing gpc,
and 2.95.3 was missing docs.

And they're still available, just not on simtel.  I'd rather encourage
people to make the latest versions more usable, but we can point them
at the old archives if needed.

> I keep archives of all of them on clio, and there are no known
> regressions in r5 - so removing r3 is fine.  You can remove r4 also
> if you want.  If someone really wants it I'd like to know why ...

Ok.