From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@redhat.com>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107182330050.21466-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107182203.f6IM35v00566@phal.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > Red Hat employs a large number of highly skilled GCC developers.
> > If GCC 3.0 or the GCC trunk is not stable enough / correct enough to use
> > in a GNU/Linux distribution, Red Hat's developers can work to improve and
> > stabilize a particular FSF GCC source base as effectively as any other GCC
> > source base.
>
> That is not true. Contributing to the FSF GCC sources requires patch
> review, which often doesn't happen.
Since Red Hat has two thirds of the global write privileges maintainers,
presumably they can arrange that someone does review patches Red Hat needs
- unless, of course, the problem is that the patches aren't clean enough
for the FSF tree.
> Our tree contains infrastructure to enable our Q/A to work.
Is this infrastructure something of potential use outside Red Hat? If so,
is it available as free software?
> The GNUpro source base also has changes so that there are no spurious
> bug reporting instructions.
People will still send bug reports to the GCC system when they shouldn't;
gcc-bugs and the GCC GNATS database get some bug reports for *-cygnus-*
versions, which are presumably ones which do not direct bug reports to
gcc-bugs or the GCC GNATS database.
If the Red Hat 8 GCC version were based off a GNUpro version, but that
version were checked in to the FSF repository on a branch, that might at
least help people trying to respond helpfully to misdirected bug reports
and questions work out what is in Red Hat's release - as well as avoiding
wasting people's time on the "seek out GNUpro releases on the net" game
<URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-03/msg00660.html >.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-18 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-17 13:04 Geoff Keating
2001-07-17 15:52 ` Joe Buck
2001-07-17 17:48 ` Per Bothner
2001-07-18 8:55 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-07-17 18:24 ` Craig Rodrigues
2001-07-18 2:41 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-07-18 9:03 ` H . J . Lu
2001-07-18 12:01 ` Joe Buck
2001-07-18 12:46 ` H . J . Lu
2001-07-18 13:22 ` Joe Buck
2001-07-18 13:31 ` H . J . Lu
2001-07-18 14:28 ` David Edelsohn
2001-07-18 15:03 ` Joern Rennecke
2001-07-18 15:12 ` David Edelsohn
2001-07-18 15:24 ` Joe Buck
2001-07-18 17:05 ` H . J . Lu
2001-07-19 4:56 ` Toon Moene
2001-07-18 15:41 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
2001-07-18 16:23 ` H . J . Lu
2001-07-18 12:18 ` Sergey Ostrovsky
2001-07-18 15:19 ` Ken Whaley
2001-07-18 15:30 ` Toon Moene
2001-07-18 15:59 ` Ken Whaley
2001-07-18 16:08 ` Toon Moene
2001-07-18 13:30 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2001-07-19 5:17 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-07-19 12:23 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2001-07-18 19:07 ` LinuxVN
2001-07-18 13:44 ` Toon Moene
2001-07-17 17:37 mike stump
2001-07-17 20:00 Benjamin Kosnik
2001-07-18 13:21 Benjamin Kosnik
2001-07-18 14:33 Geoff Keating
2001-07-18 14:41 dewar
2001-07-18 15:29 ` Geoff Keating
2001-07-18 17:50 ` Joe Buck
2001-07-18 18:59 ` Michael Eager
2001-07-18 19:26 ` Justin Guyett
2001-07-19 9:05 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-07-19 19:28 ` akbar A.
2001-07-18 22:10 ` Per Bothner
2001-07-18 22:19 ` Joe Buck
2001-07-18 22:38 ` Per Bothner
2001-07-18 23:00 ` Alex Rosenberg
2001-07-19 14:05 ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-07-18 20:02 dewar
2001-07-19 0:29 Bernard Dautrevaux
2001-07-19 1:16 ` Toon Moene
2001-07-19 1:36 Bernard Dautrevaux
2001-07-19 2:40 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-07-19 3:02 ` Roman Zippel
2001-07-19 3:12 ` Russ Allbery
2001-07-19 4:33 dewar
2001-07-19 10:49 dewar
2001-07-19 23:16 Bernard Dautrevaux
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