GCC 4.6.* unmasked, 4.7.0 added to tree
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> said:
> I've added 4.7.0 to the tree tonight (unkeyworded and masked as usual).
>
> I've also keyworded the 4.6 series on all arches except amd64 (due to the
> grub bug). This is a temporary measure until we figure out the best course of
> action (at least we have some people looking at the problem now).
Awesome, thanks.
> I personally apologize for the extremely long delay in getting these releases
> out in a timely manner. As such, I'm stepping down as GCC maintainer.
> Someone with as limited free time and programming experience as myself has
> no business maintaining a such core piece of a source-based distro.
>
> Sorry to dump even more on your shoulders Mike, but really I haven't been
> helping out much this past year anyways. I'll still be doing gcc-porting and
> hunting down patches like I used to.
I've been looking for things to start working on again, and I could step
back up and start to do some of the work I used to do for GCC releases.
I'll talk with Mike to figure out how we can best split up the work.
Thanks for all your work on the releases,
--
Mark Loeser
email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org
email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com
web - http://www.halcy0n.com
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