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Re: [plugins-ici-cloning-instrumentation] install-plugin Makefile target
- From: Rafael Espindola <espindola at google dot com>
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at spamcop dot net>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Grigori Fursin <grigori dot fursin at inria dot fr>, ctuning-discussions at googlegroups dot com, Grigori Fursin <gfursin at gmail dot com>, Zbigniew Chamski <zbigniew dot chamski at gmail dot com>, Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile at starynkevitch dot net>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Albert Cohen <Albert dot Cohen at inria dot fr>, Yuri Kashnikoff <yuri dot kashnikoff at gmail dot com>, Yuanjie Huang <huangyuanjie at ict dot ac dot cn>, Liang Peng <pengliang at ict dot ac dot cn>, dorit at il dot ibm dot com, Mircea Namolaru <NAMOLARU at il dot ibm dot com>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:17:27 -0500
- Subject: Re: [plugins-ici-cloning-instrumentation] install-plugin Makefile target
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2009/11/18 Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>:
> What do people think about making install-plugin not only install
> headers to build new plugins, but also install all plugins that
> have been contributed up to the code freeze for the release.
>
> First, it would make testing the plugin interface and the plugins easier.
>
> Second, if the version of a plugin available with the release is good enough
> for the needs of a user, (s)he can try out without having to install - or
> having to have installed - the plugins separately.
>
> Third, when someone uses an experimental plugin for a while and then
> upgrades
> some time later to a newer gcc release, it is useful when an updated plugin
> version that works with the new gcc release comes with the new gcc
> distribution.
>
Sound like a good idea, but I don't think we have agreed about
including plugins with gcc. I would like it, but it is not the
consensus.
Cheers,
--
Rafael Ãvila de EspÃndola