From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3502 invoked by alias); 25 Jun 2002 04:06:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cgen-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cgen-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3480 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2002 04:06:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neon-gw.transmeta.com) (63.209.4.196) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 04:06:03 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by neon-gw.transmeta.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA04919; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:05:21 -0700 Received: from mailhost.transmeta.com(10.1.1.15) by neon-gw.transmeta.com via smap (V2.1) id xma004890; Mon, 24 Jun 02 21:05:09 -0700 Received: from casey.transmeta.com (casey.transmeta.com [10.10.25.22]) by deepthought.transmeta.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5P45Ej14079; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dje@localhost) by casey.transmeta.com (8.9.3/8.7.3) id VAA13396; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:05:14 -0700 From: Doug Evans MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15639.60410.566425.365304@casey.transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:06:00 -0000 To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson , cgen@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA:] Fix for lsb0? in -gen-extract-word, take 2. In-Reply-To: <20020624234746.A1432@redhat.com> References: <20020624234746.A1432@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-q2/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 Frank Ch. Eigler writes: > Unfortunately, only "medium-weird" ports are on the sourceware > cgen repository, so it's possible that a change will break only > a port you don't (yet) have access to. cgen shouldn't be held ransom be Redhat. By that I mean if Redhat has proprietary ports it hasn't released yet that's its problem, not the net's. If a change doesn't break any existing net port (and diff'ing the generated files before/after goes a long way to doing that (*)), and the change is desirable, then the change should go in. Let Redhat have "REDHAT LOCAL" mods if it needs. Yes I know Redhat still has the copyright, but does it want to play nice with the net and encourage progress and net contributions or restrict it by saying "no you can't do that because it will break one of our internal ports". If the change is TRTTD, Redhat should welcome it and adapt. If it can't right away, deal with it. It's not like the folks at Redhat don't have any experience dealing with local mods. :-) (*) A script to do this would be a very useful addition. [insert various caveats] Someone want to write it?