I have been waiting for this release for quite some time now, so as soon as it came out, I downloaded the Linux tarball. To my horror, I find that unlike previous releases it does not contain a simple installer but many RPMs! Why did they have to do this? It is so silly. An alternative for me is to build it from sources, but I do not have the energy or the enthusiasm to do it. Sheesh!
SPAM
I made the mistake of inadvertently posting a single message to comp.compilers using my office email address and within a day I was being spammed hard! That account had remained SPAM free for almost three years and it is rather painful to see it in the hands of these idiots. Thankfully, Thunderbird is getting better and better every day at detecting this SPAM, so there is some relief.
Subversion and GCC
GCC would be moving to Subversion around this weekend. In general, I feel this is a good move and will probably help our prolific developers a lot. I do have concerns about its alarming usage of disc space relative to CVS though. As it is, my home PC is under a bit of a strain trying to squeeze in GCC mainline and gcjx-branch copies, not to mention snapshots of these that I actually use as working copies, on the hard disc partitions that I have provided to Linux. After the move to Subversion, I will have to make some adjustments to the disc partitions to fit all this stuff in.
However, this will probably have to wait as I would be on vacation in Ooty most of next week.