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Re: "plugin"-ifying the MELT branch.
Richard Guenther wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Basile
STARYNKEVITCH<basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
Diego Novillo wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:10, Janis Johnson<janis187@us.ibm.com> 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.
MELT is not pluginified yet. So it will stay some time as a branch, because
today it cannot be a plugin (for various small technical details).
My comment was to the new "branch" you were about to create where the
MELT plugin will materialize. And yes, Janis got it right.
I understood that I should not create a new branch for MELT as a plugin.
So I won't, and the pluginification of MELT becomes less a priority for
me (at least for the moment; it might change in 2010.).
Honestly, I was surprised by the reactions to my email. Very probably a
cultural problem, or perhaps a different perception of why plugins could
be useful inside GCC.
Regards.
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