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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gdr at integrable-solutions dot net, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, bonzini at gnu dot org, dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, law at redhat dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:47:19 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Richard Kenner wrote:
> > In the past, RMS had asserted that use some specific programming
> > language with an international standard developed by ISO
> > was unacceptable for the GNU project (and GCC in particular).
> > That had had the practical effect of delaying for years,
> > developments of projects both in GCC and directly related to GCC.
>
> I'm not sure I understand your reference, but those are clearly generic
> issues relating to management of FSF projects overall and to philosophical
> issues related to Free Software. That's very clearly the prerogative of
> the FSF. What I heard claimed was that there was interference in the
> *technical* issues, such as when to take branches or similar specific
> technical choices. I've heard of no such examples before this one.
Btw, I cannot find anything related to this discussion (about whether
and what power the FSF has to force their maintainers to do anything)
in the official FSF documentation (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/).
Richard.