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Re: Backporting, was: Re: [PATCH, libgfortran] PR24794 namelist input of character array]
We should definitely stop merging changes to 4.0, unless they are regressions
from g77, and even this will be of debatable value after the release of 4.1.
I'm not so sure that we're in a state where our policy of backporting all fixes
to 4.1 costs us more than it gains us, so we might want to continue this.
Opinions?
I think we should try to commit easy fixes to 4.0 when they're easy to
do, until 4.1.0 is released, and after that let it go (being a x.0
branch, distros will not keep it too long). On the contrary, 4.1 and
mainline should be kept in sync as long as possible, even if that means
non-trivial efforts. That is, commiting everything to 4.1 unless it
would not be approved because it touches other parts of the compiler
(like GOMP).
FX