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On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 07:44:02PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > > Can you tell me who are going to maintain Linux for years to come? > > We, VA Linux, have sold so many Linux machines. What do we do? The > > answer is you don't have to worry about it. Someone will maintain it, > > one way or the other, just like gcc, kernel, X11, glibc, binutils, > > ...... libgcc.so is no different. > > That's not a convincing response. For each of the packages you cited, > there is some person or organization supporting it, in the sense of > ongoing development (gcc steering committee, Linus Torvalds, XFree > Consortium, Ulrich Drepper, Cygnus/Redhat). Those I trust that they > will be there five years from now, or hand it over before they go > away. > > Something being "Linux" is not a guarantee for ongoing support; many > projects have been abandoned, or stagnate forever (my NTFS driver is > an example; another is the bpe editor). > > Are you saing VA Linux would commit to maintain libgcc.so? That would > be convincing also. > I don't speak for VA Linux. But I can ensure you that VA Linux has a vast interest in an actively maintained Linux system. A working libgcc.so belongs to that category. I will bet Red Hat, SuSE, ..... and many other Linux system software vendors will be very interested in it also. BTW, I guess Ulrich Drepper wants a reasonable libgcc.so solution for glibc too. H.J.
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