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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:11:48 +0100 (BST)
- cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Joe Buck wrote:
> What alternative do you propose? Not allow any checkin that might break
> the elxsi port? (Mike Stump said a while back that the last elxsi was
> taken out of service, so it really, really doesn't exist).
>
> If we want to forbid checkins that cause breakage, we have to distinguish
> somehow between ports that must be kept working and ports that can be
> broken (until some interested party fixes them).
I'm not proposing an alternative policy that would consider breakage of
the listed ports as a checkin criterion - simply questioning the
correspondence between a port being bitrotten and no-one having one of the
machines in their collection.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk