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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ping: New Toshiba Media Processor (mep-elf) port and  maintainer
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.99.0906201936200.29901@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090619001416.GA7995@hungry-tiger.westford.ibm.com>

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Michael Meissner wrote:
> All of my comments about the internals of the mep would be things to do
> if you desired, but as port maintainer, I don't see that we have to
> apply standards set for the rest of the compiler (if we did, probably
> half of the ports would be rejected for formatting in some of the
> files).

I believe what was mentioned at the Summit was that where ports introduce
deprecated interfaces or possibly increase the maintainence burden for
other maintainers in the future that is something we want to avoid, and
for that reason a check of port beyond changes in common code is
beneficial.

Gerald

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-20 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05 15:18 Gerald Pfeifer
2009-06-05 15:51 ` DJ Delorie
2009-06-08 22:52 ` DJ Delorie
2009-06-17  4:52 ` Ping: " DJ Delorie
2009-06-19  0:14   ` Michael Meissner
2009-06-19  1:32     ` DJ Delorie
2009-06-20 17:36     ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]

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