From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1719 invoked by alias); 7 Jul 2006 18:58:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 1706 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jul 2006 18:58:55 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:58:52 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FyvXJ-0007u1-Rt; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:58:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:58:00 -0000 From: 'Daniel Jacobowitz' To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw , Dave Korn , binutils@sources.redhat.com, Ian Lance Taylor Subject: Re: backward/forward compatibility of binutils Message-ID: <20060707185845.GA30341@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mikhail Teterin , Jan-Benedict Glaw , Dave Korn , binutils@sources.redhat.com, Ian Lance Taylor References: <00e901c6a1db$a99c2450$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <200607071441.12923.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060707184544.GA29933@nevyn.them.org> <200607071456.15368.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607071456.15368.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00092.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:56:14PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Ian's response is: "Do it yourself". There is not much to do, besides > agreeing, that the compatibility would be a desirable goal... You've missed his entire point, which is that the current interface is not designed extensibly. It would be a great deal of work to preserve it in the face of major changes - work which no one who would be making those changes has interest in doing. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery