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Re: gcc/gcc/ada ChangeLog gnat_rm.texi
- To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Subject: Re: gcc/gcc/ada ChangeLog gnat_rm.texi
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:16:17 +0100 (BST)
- cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On the other hand, there are probably people on the GCC mailing lists
> who cannot handle very large volumes of mail, and it would be nice to
> them not to send such huge patches when they receive exactly the same
> information over a different channel.
The GCC mailing lists already have large volumes of mail (often over
10Mbyte/month for some of the lists, over 60Mbyte/month total). The odd
400kbyte patch isn't particularly significant in this; people who can't
handle large volumes of mail aren't on the lists. They might be reading
via the web archives - in which retrieving diffs for new files is a pain
if they aren't sent to gcc-patches because the links from gcc-cvs archives
to them don't work (web/638). The CVS source tree may in general be on a
different system from that where the mail is received.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk