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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel dot Dos-Reis at cmla dot ens-cachan dot fr>
- Date: 10 Jul 2001 12:59:22 +0200
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Organization: CMLA, ENS Cachan -- CNRS UMR 8536 (France)
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107101110430.20390-100000@host140.cambridge.redhat.com>
Bernd Schmidt <bernds@redhat.com> writes:
| The problem is that the buggy code is _already_ checked in, and it'll have
| to be fixed somehow. I'm not of the opinion that choosing the convenient
| solution of ignoring the problems and reverting patches that expose them
| is a good idea.
I think the proposal isn't to forget completely the good patch.
As I understand it, it is about
1) taking it out temporarily
2) fix the latent bug
3) then recheck-in the good patch.
Breaking the main tree just because a patch happens to be "good" isn't
a good idea, in general. Good patchs should not prevent people from
continueing their works. I think that is thee most important point:
how to ensure that patch checked in would not prevent people from
continuing their works.
-- Gaby