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Re: Ada policy
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, mrs at apple dot com,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:34:47 -0400
- Subject: Re: Ada policy
- References: <10408310303.AA02085@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <87n00c3sbq.fsf@codesourcery.com>
Zack Weinberg wrote:
For the record, I'm fine with putting the fix in the FSF tree and
declaring that there is a test case but it's proprietary code, in
this circumstance. However, developing non-encumbered test cases
is certainly a Good Thing,
Yes, no one disagrees with that!
and IMO worth spending time on.
That's of course the issue, worth it to whom? And who
covers the cost of this time. It's just a matter of
balancing resources as usual.
It sounds like you have a regression test harness internally; would
it be practical to clean that up and contribute it?
I think the clean up would be more effort than rewriting by quite
a large margin. The current script is tied into our whole system
for bug tracking etc.