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Re: RFC: future gfortran development and subversion
On 10/19/05, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:06:44PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On 10/19/05, Tobias Schl?ter <tobias.schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> > > Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > > Now, to my proposal for future gfortran development post 4.1 branching.
> > > > When (if) svn becomes the source code revision tool, I propose that all
> > > > future work be done solely on mainline. No individual patches can be
> > > > merged into 4.1. The 4.0 branch will be dead. Periodically, say bi-weekly
> > > > or monthly, we do a merge from mainline into 4.1. The aim is to keep 4.1
> > > > and mainline sufficiently in sync and to minimize the requirements of
> > > > additional hardware (except for the day or two required for the merge) and
> > > > to maximize our time investment.
> >
> > Dude, I hope fortran will, after branching of 4.1, follow the usual rules
> > of regression fixes only. This means development will be on mainline
> > only anyways, as for any other language.
>
> Please define regression.
A regression is a bug that was not in release N - M and was discovered
in release N. You are then free to fix N - M + 1 to N. Like you have
a
testcase that crashes gfortran on 4.1.0, but did not on 4.0.2.
Richard.