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Re: [Ada][PATCH][PING^2] GNAT/RTEMS patch for SVN Trunk ping
- From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
- To: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>
- Cc: Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>, Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:57:36 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Ada][PATCH][PING^2] GNAT/RTEMS patch for SVN Trunk ping
- References: <47D7E656.4080904@oarcorp.com> <1207134729.15628.193.camel@localhost> <20080402122146.GB46444@adacore.com> <47F38DBC.8050003@oarcorp.com>
> Not to be rude but how is it fair that you guys keep committing
> hundreds of changes which were never sent to gcc-patches and
> then throw back any outstanding patches your changes break?
You submitted a change last year, I gave you feedback on needed changes,
then you submitted a new version which was apparently based on some
branch rather than trunk, so I asked you to update this patch to be
suitable for the trunk (that was last year, something like november), and
then nothing happened for 3 or 4 monthes, until you resubmitted your new
patch in march.
So it's not all that unexpected that other developments have happened between
last november and early march.
It's also not unexpected that a patch that has been reviewed many times and
which required changes (and contained some errors/missing changes) needs to
be reviewed carefully and cannot be accepted straightforwardly.
Had your patch been in a suitable form back in october/november, it would
have been accepted right away and would be commited already, as have been
many other patches submitted by various people.
The patches that we "keep committing" are all reviewed by several people
and follow extensive testing systematically.
Arno