GNU Developer Collection [LSARC/2008/776 FastTrack timeout01/07/2009]

[Rainer Orth]

George Vasick <George.Vasick at Sun.COM> writes:

> Reply from the studio team:
> 
>     "There are existing plans to put other non-gcc compilers into
>     /usr/compilers.  Plans change, and that's not a commitment,
>     but that's the current intention."
> 
> So, it should happen.

I'm not sure this is a good idea in its current form: current precedent
(set e.g. by mysql and postgres, there are most likely others) seems to be
to have e.g.

	/usr/gcc/4.3
	/usr/gcc/4.4

I.e. no micro versions unless absolutely necessary (and I think I've
provided evidence that this is not the case here and produces more harm
than good) and no intermediate directory.  The studio compilers could go
into (say)

	/usr/studio/13

in the future.

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University