From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18643 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2009 17:33:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 18614 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2009 17:33:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_FAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx20.gnu.org (HELO mx20.gnu.org) (199.232.41.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:32:56 +0000 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGcWj-0003wb-Oa for gcc@gcc.gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:32:54 -0400 Received: (qmail 22581 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2009 17:32:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digraph.polyomino.org.uk) (joseph@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 16 Jun 2009 17:32:51 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MGcWg-0004Qr-2g; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:32:50 +0000 Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:33:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Janis Johnson cc: Basile STARYNKEVITCH , Richard Guenther , GCC Mailing List Subject: Re: "plugin"-ifying the MELT branch. In-Reply-To: <1245172216.7200.8.camel@janis-laptop> Message-ID: References: <4A281366.9010004@starynkevitch.net> <4A377E77.3010807@starynkevitch.net> <84fc9c000906160416m26425ae0n81fd20510908f012@mail.gmail.com> <4A378033.3080504@starynkevitch.net> <4A378E9F.7020603@starynkevitch.net> <1245172216.7200.8.camel@janis-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00378.txt.bz2 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