Re: [trinity-devel] Please push - basket gcc47 patch [was Re: [trinity-devel] basket notepad failure (oh no!) - 'getuid' was not declared in this scope ??]

Generally the gcc changes are to provide for the future, unfortunately not giving that much weight to the past. No we are not the only large project affected, but we are hit especially hard due to the small manpower-to-codebase_size of this project. Where other large projects, k4, gnome, etc.. may have hundreds of developers to help with changes, we have a relative few.

This the overwhelming attitude throughout free/libre software developers: screw backwards compatibility. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead with bleeding edge!

I understand the reasoning: much less overhead and tighter code. Yet idealism seldom satisfies reality. Backwards compatibility is necessary.

Darrell