Re: Sandbox branch for gfortran 4.5 patches

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot org>]

Steve Kargl wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:30:43AM +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> > regarding the sandbox branch: I'm not sure how useful it is; after all,
> > we want to apply the patches one-by-one when 4.5 opens and not as a huge
> > chunk - and splitting them will not be easy.
>
> An svn commit is atomic.  We should easily be able to generate an
> ordered sequence of patches.

Or we could try to obtain permission to apply the changes of the branch 
to the new trunk as a whole.

After all, other development branches (like tuples) are merged as a 
whole too.

> > Additionally, one needs to merge the trunk into the branch regularly,
> > which also not always works.

Yes, but every development branch needs a maintainer anyway (I wish that 
was mentioned here: http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html, but it isn't).

> Yes, it will if all gfortran work is done in the branch.  Frequent
> merges of the non-gfortran change would be needed, but there should
> be few to no conflicts. 

I think so too.

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