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Re: Web pages still refer to Chill
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Web pages still refer to Chill
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:11:28 +0000
- cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn at thp dot univie dot ac dot at>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-To: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> > In fact, I wonder whether we should remove Chill from the tree, as
> > apparently there is no interest at all in this.
>
> Converting Chill to use gc is on the projects page; I think it would be a
> reasonable candidate to go on Zack's list of projects for beginners (most
> of the work being fairly mecahnical removal of obstack manipulation and
> registration of gc roots). But, for a volunteer to work on it, it would
> probably help if Red Hat were to do the work to get clearance from their
> customer to release their Chill testsuite (mentioned before on the mailing
> lists).
>
> Chill should surely get excluded from the 3.0 release tarballs / diffs if
> not fixed by then though.
Might be an idea to leave it on the trunk but delete it from the 3.0
branch after it has been made.
R.