From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23276 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2014 21:05:02 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 23258 invoked by uid 89); 18 Dec 2014 21:05:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:05:01 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sBIL4pG7020586 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:04:52 -0500 Received: from host2.jankratochvil.net (ovpn-116-142.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.142]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sBIL4j7g024552 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:04:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:05:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Pedro Alves Cc: Kai Tietz , Steve Ellcey , Eli Zaretskii , brobecker@adacore.com, yao@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] compile: rm -rf -> ftw()+rmdir()+unlink() [Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build] Message-ID: <20141218210445.GA23134@host2.jankratochvil.net> References: <20141217210144.GA26674@host2.jankratochvil.net> <549206B1.40902@redhat.com> <20141218181432.GA19996@host2.jankratochvil.net> <54931BBB.3080304@redhat.com> <20141218184123.GA20422@host2.jankratochvil.net> <549325FB.9040705@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <549325FB.9040705@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00553.txt.bz2 On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:07:39 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > Ranting does not help, that's all I'll say. I am just trying to show (for many years) despite contributor's best effort (*) the current GDB project's maintenance requires multiple reimplementations of patches until everyone approves the patch as all the requirements are nowhere written and the maintainers only show their requirements one after another after each of the patch variant is submitted. This leads to the slow development of GDB despite a lot of time invested into it. (*) I feel at least as good as a median newcomer to GDB. Jan