Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:06:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x |
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On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote: > > Please do, you'll find that working with the egcs team compared to > working with Kenner is like night and day.
It's certainly different.
Kenners attention was hard to get. And sometimes when you got it he replied with a "known problem, I don't [know how|have time] to fix it". And sometimes he replied with a "here's a testing patch that may fix the problem", and sometimes it did.
But I personally never had Kenner disable a feature because I could reproduce a bug with it. When you told Kenner of a bug he acknowledged it as a bug.
He may not have given it the attention it deserved, and I understand that he was very hard to work with as a developer. I was happy that egcs came to life because it was obvious that there were development problems due to this.
But I'd be happier with a bit more of Kenneresque behaviour, and a bit less of the "go away, we don't support this even though it's been there for years" attitude.
Linus
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