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Re: Bugzilla components for target libraries
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Rainer Orth <ro at cebitec dot uni-bielefeld dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:49:19 +0100
- Subject: Re: Bugzilla components for target libraries
- References: <yddwrb8qfhl.fsf@manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <20111110133529.GA77619@adacore.com>
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com> wrote:
>> The entries in parens are only covered indirectly and may or may not
>> warrant their own components. ?I'd argue that it would be helpful to
>> have libada and libgo components of their own (while libcpp would
>> probably be overkill), but of course that's ultimately up to the
>> respective maintainers.
>
> My gut feeling is that having a single ada component is sufficient and
> having ada+libada wouldn't buy us much.
>
> But if for e.g. consistency with other components people feel strongly
> that we should have a separate libada component, that would be fine with
> me.
I think we should have different components only if we have different
maintainers for them (or, if they do not naturally belong to another component).
Note that most bug submitters confuse the bug component with the
language they used for the testcase anyway.
Richard.