From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13241 invoked by alias); 2 Nov 2010 19:29:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 13227 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Nov 2010 19:29:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:29:35 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B78C2BACB4; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:29:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 6oyQRdCBi6Cm; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:29:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C04F2BACAE; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:29:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C05FEF588F; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:29:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Jan Kratochvil , dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ken@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tromey@redhat.com, pedro@codesourcery.com Subject: Re: [doc RFA] Switch to GCC coding style [Re: [patch] initial OpenCL C language support] Message-ID: <20101102192926.GJ2492@adacore.com> References: <201010221920.30046.ken@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20101026195747.GE2847@adacore.com> <20101027190417.GA19067@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <201010272020.51386.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20101102165134.GA19296@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20101102172246.GA22137@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <8339rj5y7z.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8339rj5y7z.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00047.txt.bz2 > On balance, I think we should simply have our own coherent document. > It can copy verbatim all the stuff that is relevant to GDB, but it > should include the above renames, and it should omit everything that > is irrelevant. Any other way, we will just confuse potential > contributors: it is perhaps easy for us old-timers to distinguish > between the relevant and the rest, but for a newbie contributor it > could be an impossible requirement. To say nothing of the fact that > they will now have to read two documents instead of 1. I really agree with the above. -- Joel