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Re: "plugin"-ifying the MELT branch.
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Janis Johnson wrote:
> Basile, people are saying that MELT no longer belongs in a branch of
> the GCC repository because now that plug-ins are supported, MELT no
> longer needs to modify GCC itself and can be maintained independently.
> That does not mean that MELT cannot be assignd to the FSF (you should
> probably talk to the FSF about that) and certainly doesn't mean that
> it can't use GPLv3. It also doesn't mean that you should stop being
> part of the GCC community. All it means is that the MELT sources
> should now be hosted elsewhere as a separate project.
>
> Richi and Joseph, do you agree with that?
I have not been saying anything about whether or not MELT belongs in a
branch of the GCC repository or where plugins should be hosted. My
comments have been about general questions of what should or should not be
a plugin rather than about what should be hosted where.
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Joseph S. Myers
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