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Re: 4.0.2 released, 4.0 branch open again
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:46:15AM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> Fran?ois-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> >>FWIW working on three branches is a little too much, so once 4.2 branches
> >>we
> >>should stop backporting to 4.0.
> >
> >
> >I complete understand (and agree with) that. Unfortunately, distros
> >will ship with 4.0 for a long time (how much time before Debian ships
> >4.1, for example?), and the compiler will be judged on that.
> >
> >FX
> >
> Why not just do a complete backport of all of 4.1 to 4.0 in one shot either
> now or when 4.2 branches so that 4.0 and 4.1 are maintained identical and
> move forward with 4.2. Then changes to 4.2 can be incrementally included
> in 4.1 similar to what is being done now with 4.1 and 4.0. ie at some
> point keep 4.0 and 4.1 identical. At least this way patches will commit
> straight in without having to hand patch a lot like we are doing now with
> 4.0
>
It may be difficult to do a backport because there may be
infrastructure differences. In particular, this commit
2005-03-23 Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de>
* convert.c (convert): Replace fold (buildN (...)) with fold_buildN.
may cause pain.
--
Steve