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Re: Using GNATS to track GCC patches
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at mediaone dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 21:29:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: Using GNATS to track GCC patches
- References: <20011117104102.A14701@mediaone.net> <20011117181230.B9631@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:12:30PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
> I also feel that GNATS is a bit, um, flimsy and breaks easily, and is
> not heavy-duty enough for what we'd really like. We realy want proper
> bug cross-referencing, cross-dependency tracking, a proper idea of
> duplicates, etc, etc. much like Bugzilla does and GNATS doesn't appear
> to do at all.
BTW: What's the reason why bugzilla isn't used instead? GNATS doesn't work
at all with some browsers and I wonder what advantages does it give over
bugzilla. Is it just political issue?
Jakub