From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7816 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2004 00:16:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 7791 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 00:16:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.9) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 00:16:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 2781 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 00:16:18 -0000 Received: from 227.148-60-66-fuji-dsl.static.surewest.net (HELO minax.codesourcery.com) (mitchell@66.60.148.227) by mail.codesourcery.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 00:16:18 -0000 Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal From: Mark Mitchell To: Ziemowit Laski Cc: Geoff Keating , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Phil Edwards In-Reply-To: <02AF54EA-455D-11D8-B7FE-000393673036@apple.com> References: <90200277-4301-11D8-BDBD-000A95B1F520@apple.com> <20040110002526.GA13568@disaster.jaj.com> <82D6F34E-4306-11D8-BDBD-000A95B1F520@apple.com> <20040110154129.GA28152@disaster.jaj.com> <1073935323.3458.42.camel@minax.codesourcery.com> <1073951351.3458.162.camel@minax.codesourcery.com> <02AF54EA-455D-11D8-B7FE-000393673036@apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC Message-Id: <1073952978.3458.177.camel@minax.codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:16:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00747.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:11, Ziemowit Laski wrote: > On 12 Jan, 2004, at 15.49, Mark Mitchell wrote: > > > Apple (and some other vendors, including CodeSourcery) is in the > > position of doing its own release management and bug-fixing based on > > various versions of GCC. Therefore, having high-quality FSF releases > > may not make much of a difference to Apple; Apple doesn't use it > > directly anyhow. > > And the reason we don't is because the FSF keeps shooting down our > patches. > You just can't have it both ways. I don't necessarily disagree. But, that doesn't alter the fact that my goal -- with my FSF RM hat on -- is to produce high-quality FSF releases, until or unless the FSF requests otherwise. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery, LLC