From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Edelsohn To: Joern Rennecke Cc: geoffk@redhat.com (Geoff Keating), jbuck@synopsys.COM (Joe Buck), aj@suse.de (Andreas Jaeger), hjl@lucon.org (H . J . Lu), gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <200107182212.SAA20610@makai.watson.ibm.com> References: <200107182203.f6IM35v00566@phal.cambridge.redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg01309.html >>>>> Joern Rennecke writes: Joern> Why should we (FSF gcc developers) have a GNU/Linux GCC branch? Why not Joern> use the latest release branch. Then the patches will automatically be Joern> included in the next bug fix release. We already have a new mechanism for development that includes doing major development on a branch. Why not consider GCC for Red Hat Linux 8 a similar situation. Branches in the GCC CVS repository are more than just release branches. Even if you do not try to find a way to use the FSF GCC sources as your base, I hope that you will consider the request from numerous corners that the version of GCC included in Red Hat Linux 8 be compatible with FSF GCC releases. Regards, David