[csw-maintainers] Retiring old versions of GCC

[Peter FELECAN]

Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hello maintainers,
>
> Apart from multi-version support, we can also think about retiring the
> older versions of gcc.  When there's no reason to keep an old version
> around, I'd suggest removing it, although I understand it's painful to
> remove something that e.g. once required a lot of work to get in.  But
> keeping old unused software around only clutters the catalog.  For
> example, there might potentially still be a use case for gcc-3, but I
> doubt that there's any reason to keep gcc2 around. What are your
> thoughts, and how would you approach the issue?

I don't have any objection toward its removal. However, is there a
conflict with the current or future gcc releases? If there is no
conflict don't remove it.
-- 
Peter