[ILUG] Can anyone see any reason why a customer would need to compile a new compiler?

[Paul O'Malley]

conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me whay there would be a need to do so? I cannot see one.

The lust for the bleeding edge can be caused by two pieces of thinking.
1) a tester of gcc or systems therefore going to work on the next level
2) if you come to the land of GNU/Linux from a popular desktop you may
carry an attitude of the latest greatest thing is what you must run on
your machine.
3) something else.

There is a rather useful wiki page on the ubuntu site that tries to
explain to people why the latest version of a piece of software is not
in their release of the distro https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeBasedReleases.

Regards,

Paul