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Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,coyote at coyotegulch dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:32:01 -0500
- Subject: Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
- References: <10404021625.AA05568@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Apr 2, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:
I made a serious (with tongue a tad in cheek) set of suggestions
specific to GCC, and in response to comments made herein by others.
There is a sincere need to address these issues, which are very
GCC-specific; few other packages have the breadth and depth of GCC,
across platforms and users. Therefore, this seems to be an
appropriate
venue.
You are totally ignoring the fact that there are many people who *are*
paying
to have GCC maintained and a number of companies very happy to receive
such payments. But the point remains that the issues you are raising
are
financial and political and this is a *technical* list.
It's not completely clear from the description that this is offtopic:
• gcc is a high volume list for general development discussions
about GCC. Anything relevant to the development or testing of GCC and
not covered by other mailing lists is suitable for discussion here.
This could be considered "relevant to the development of GCC, and not
covered by other mailing lists"
Not that i care (hey, if it makes people feel better to put $5 towards
fixing a given bug, what do i care?), even though i'd be the one to
implement any such suggestions.
--Dan