From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc? Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 18:22:00 -0000 Message-id: <14743.973131855@upchuck> References: <10011020224.AA06122@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> X-SW-Source: 2000-11/msg00056.html In message < 10011020224.AA06122@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu >you write: > Funny, that's not unlike the argument originally made for GDB. And > gee whiz, the developers we never knew of did start coming out of the > blue to do development. Similarly with GCC when we opened up its > development via egcs -- lots of folks started contibuting that had > never contributed before. > > Yes, but in both cases there were *some* contributors before. Not really for GDB. I can count the number of external contributors on one hand that existed before we made a repository available on sourceware. jeff