From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>,
Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
GCC Mailing List <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "plugin"-ifying the MELT branch.
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906161731570.9474@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245172216.7200.8.camel@janis-laptop>
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Janis Johnson wrote:
> Basile, people are saying that MELT no longer belongs in a branch of
> the GCC repository because now that plug-ins are supported, MELT no
> longer needs to modify GCC itself and can be maintained independently.
> That does not mean that MELT cannot be assignd to the FSF (you should
> probably talk to the FSF about that) and certainly doesn't mean that
> it can't use GPLv3. It also doesn't mean that you should stop being
> part of the GCC community. All it means is that the MELT sources
> should now be hosted elsewhere as a separate project.
>
> Richi and Joseph, do you agree with that?
I have not been saying anything about whether or not MELT belongs in a
branch of the GCC repository or where plugins should be hosted. My
comments have been about general questions of what should or should not be
a plugin rather than about what should be hosted where.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-16 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-04 18:33 Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-05 16:14 ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-16 11:13 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-16 11:16 ` Richard Guenther
2009-06-16 11:21 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-16 11:38 ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-06-16 12:22 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-16 12:53 ` Richard Guenther
2009-06-16 13:10 ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-06-16 17:10 ` Janis Johnson
2009-06-16 17:20 ` Diego Novillo
2009-06-16 17:30 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-17 10:49 ` Richard Guenther
2009-06-17 11:56 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-16 17:33 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
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