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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- To: Trevor dot Jenkins at suneidesis dot com (Trevor Jenkins)
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at possibly dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (GCC Developers), mark at codesourcery dot com (Mark Mitchell)
[ Chill front end ]
Trevor Jenkins
> I'll play devil's advocate here; or should that be hell's-frozen-over
> advocate? I believe there to be a very good reason for keeping the Chill
> front-end maintained as part of gcc 3 and later. It provides a
> reference/tutorial case of integrating a new language into the gcc
> architecture.
If we're going to maintain it, we need a maintainer; the original author
has gone on to other work, and almost none of the developers knows Chill.