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Plug-In Architecture On the Way For GCC
VonGuard writes "This year marks the 25th anniversary of the GNU Operating System. A major part of that system has always been the GNU Compiler Collection. This year, some of the earliest bits of GCC also turn 25, and yet some of the collection's most interesting years of growth may still be ahead. The GCC team announced today that the long-standing discussion over how to allow plug-ins to be written for GCC has been settled. The FSF and the GCC team have decided to apply the GPL to plug-ins. That means all that's left is to build a framework for plug-ins; no small task to be sure. But building this framework should make it easier for people to contribute to the GCC project, and some universities are already working on building windows into the compilation process, with the intent of releasing plug-ins."
why do people still try to attach GNU/ to Linux? It makes no sense.
Me? I run Gnu/KDE/Xorg/Gnome/vim/perl/rxvt/Fluxbox/Firefox/Java/Linux
... was a plugin for emacs.
If you disagree with me on social issues, then it's pretty clear that you are a narrow-minded bigot.
Spell check.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
nuff said.. why do people still try to attach GNU/ to Linux? It makes no sense.
Oh god. Can't we stick to something non-controversial like GWB's legacy, gun control, abortion or the Middle East? Nothing good will come of this....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
So you can watch trippy visualizations while you compile.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
That depends on your definition of "has produced". GNU certainly is actively developing an operating system, but I would say that an OS project that has managed to go 25 years without a stable kernel release cannot fairly be said to "have produced" an operating system.
but most of the third-party software which gets installed on top has been touched by the hand of gnu somewhere along the lines
I delight in reminding your that gnus don't have hands, they have hoofs!
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
That is clearly the easy part, should only take a few years, much shorter than the decision at least. I'll bang my head against the wall while I wait.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
More precisely:
No, the hurd is the (still incomplete) kernel, GNU is the (still incomplete) Operating System.
NO NO NO! They do NOT need to ask themselves that! If they do, they'll form a committee to go about finding a way of answering the question. After years of deliberating, that committee will decide another committee is better suited, and send them off into the desert for 30 days and nights, to search for their spirit guide.
Upon their long-hair-bearded-and-sandalised return, they shall proclaim that the original committee was mistaken in their decision, and call for a review on the whole process.
Years down the line, the final decision will be made:
We never should've tried to create a Unix alternative in the first place. All work on GNU is meaningless and void. From this day forward, we shall concentrate all our efforts on the creation of a wholly new, original OS based around the same open source principles of the GNU.
It's name?
UNG is Not GNU (UNG).
Do you see what I did there?
Of course, this was posted anon to avoid reprisals from the faithful.
Poppycock. That's utter BS, and you know it. If Windows wasn't reliable enough, then it wouldn't be so popular, even for servers. I find Windows to be more reliable and stable than my Mac Book Pro running OS X 10.5.x, and that's based on UNIX. Stop the childish FUD.