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Re: Improving gengtype (for plugin support notably) - how to get a rather big patch accepted?
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: basile at starynkevitch dot net
- Cc: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jeremie dot salvucci at free dot fr
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:41:59 -0700
- Subject: Re: Improving gengtype (for plugin support notably) - how to get a rather big patch accepted?
- References: <1282671483.2414.61.camel@glinka> <4C764097.50905@gnu.org> <1282839909.15306.0.camel@glinka>
Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net> writes:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 12:23 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 08/24/2010 07:38 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
>> > (actually, this happened to us before e.g.
>> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-06/msg02178.html etc).
>>
>> Sorry, but that's what happens when you ignore the maintainers' opinion.
>>
>> Do not misunderstand me: I'm very interested in your works and happy to
>> review your patches. However, if you are told to do A and do B,
>> maintainers will only remind you once that you should have done A.
>
> Could you instantiate A & B please?
I think that A is Paolo's suggestion here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-06/msg01987.html
B is here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-06/msg02178.html
Ian