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Re: "plugin"-ifying the MELT branch.
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> I thought on the contrary that is was expected that some code would become FSF
> owned plugins?
Not without a mechanism for linking plugins in statically on hosts for
which we don't support dynamic loading of plugins, and even then it's
doubtful. Rather, we should watch out for things being implemented as
plugins that are generally useful for GCC and seek to build them into GCC
(unconditionally) where appropriate, while leaving cases such as checking
project-specific coding rules as separate plugins.
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Joseph S. Myers
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