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Re: Checking for GCC 4
From: |
Harlan Stenn |
Subject: |
Re: Checking for GCC 4 |
Date: |
Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:11:27 +0000 |
Yes, it is better to check for specific features/problems than to check
for a version number.
Sometimes it's Really Hard to check for features/problems. Really
Really Hard.
Sometimes it is way more efficient to test for a version number than a
specific feature/problem.
I don't have any problem with that.
If the version test is discovered to be insufficient, to resolve that
insufficiency the test must be improved.
There are times I still do OS-version checks to >make assumptions<
about, for example, file system layout or startup script methods.
Is this inelegant? Yes. Have I received any bug reports about it? No.
Software isn't finished until the last user is dead.
Evolution happens.
Some "issues" are more significant than others.
H
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, E. Rosten, 2006/02/02
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Ralf Corsepius, 2006/02/02
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Warren Young, 2006/02/02
- Re: Checking for GCC 4,
Harlan Stenn <=
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Paul Smith, 2006/02/02
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Harlan Stenn, 2006/02/02
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Ralf Corsepius, 2006/02/02
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Harlan Stenn, 2006/02/02
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Paul Smith, 2006/02/03
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Ralf Corsepius, 2006/02/03
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Harlan Stenn, 2006/02/03
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Ralf Corsepius, 2006/02/03
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Harlan Stenn, 2006/02/03
- Re: Checking for GCC 4, Ralf Corsepius, 2006/02/03