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Re: Version numbers
Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 16-Feb-2001, Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> wrote:
> > "Joseph S. Myers" wrote:
> > > * CVS date.
> > > * GCC version (3.0, etc.).
> > > * g77 version (0.5.26, etc.).
> > > * CHILL version (1.5.2, etc.).
> > > * gcov version (1.5, etc.).
> > >
> > > and any others.
> >
> > This sounds like a *very* good idea to me !
>
> I'm not so sure that this is a good idea. Doing it this way would
> mean that adding a new front-end can't be done by just providing new
> files in a new directory. Instead, patches to the language-independent
> stuff would be required. Furthermore, such patches are very likely to
> have conflicts. That could be a real pain.
Ah - you're clearly from a different church than I am. The first
two-and-a-half years of its public existence, g77 carried a perpetually
growing "GNU Back End" patch just to get in some basic functionality we
needed or to be able to adapt optimisation heuristics to the Fortran
Reality. This was fixed no earlier than the EGCS project started, in
August '97.
Of course, it would be useful to limit the patches to the language
independent stuff (e.g., no more than one file).
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