From: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Message-Id: <199805131647.AA086338063@typhoon.rose.hp.com>
Subject: Re: OK, make won, what is TAB??
To: salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar (Salvador Eduardo Tropea)
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 9:47:43 PDT
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <m0yZcoM-000S2iC@inti.gov.ar>; from "Salvador Eduardo Tropea" at May 13, 98 11:56 am
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> But EGCS IS experimental code, it doesn't have to be buggy code. The people 
> from GNU defines EGCS as the version to put experimental code.
It depends on who you talk to.  Kenner and RMS will say that egcs is 
a testing ground for gcc 2.9 now.  But, I don't totally believe this. 
I think the original motives for egcs where that many of the (at the time)
gcc maintainer (jim wilson, jeff lawson, jason merril) were frustrated
with working with kenner, and wanted a more open development model
where all the developers weren't subject to the whim of the main 
maintainer.  Nowadays most bugfixes go into egcs first, and then gcc.  But
also new features (and potential bugs) go into egcs as well.  Its true
that egcs is changing substantially (~300K source changes per week and 250
files or so, fun merging), but the quality of it is up there.

Andy