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Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
On 12 Jan, 2004, at 17.01, Mark Mitchell wrote:
In my opinion, one of the duties of the RM (currently Mark) is to
devise
architectural solutions to accommodate such idiosyncracies in the same
source base.
This discussion is rapidly degenerating.
Let's wrap it up and get back to work.
For the record, though, I don't view it as part of my duties as RM to
come up with any sort of design plans for GCC. That would be fun, and
it is in some other context's my job, and I suppose the FSF could
conceivably appoint some kind of design planner, but they haven't, and
if they did it might very well not be me!
While I can't argue with the veracity of your claim, I must say I find
it downright bizarre. How can one oversee the productization of
something
as complex as gcc without an understanding of -- and control over -- its
architecture? Unless, of course, productization is not in your job
description either... :-)
Somehow, we're taking in this down some route where it's Apple vs. the
FSF, which is silly since I didn't criticize Apple.
I'm not arguing against anyone. I was merely trying to explain why
people why not be as enthused about fixing remaining 3.4 bugs as you
might want them to be.
--Zem
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