RE: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk--: gcc2.7.2 abandoned?

[smolitor insight-tech com (Stephen Molitor)]

Gert wrote:
 "What about the non programmers wanting to use my (for example) program.
Some of
them can't update their compiler ..."

Answer: Distrbute binaries, or tell your users to get a C++ compiler (that
supports C++).

gcc 2.7.x is really very out of date for C++.  Huge sections of the
standard C++ library can not even be compiled properly (i.e the STL).
Can you imagine using a C compiler that couldn't compile, say, printf()?
That's what using gcc for C++ is like.

Just my two cents - I have nothing to do with the Gtk-- development
team.

Steve Molitor
smolitor@insight-tech.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Scholten [mailto:gs2@dds.nl]
Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 1:06 PM
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
Subject: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk--: gcc2.7.2 abandoned?




On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Karl Nelson wrote:

:
:Best suggestion use an earlier version.  There have been a lot
:of changes in the code recently.  Unfortunately, as none of the
:developers still have gcc 2.7.2, that means there is few chances
:of it working.

What about the non programmers wanting to use my (for example) program. Some
of
them can't update their compiler ...

Gert

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