Re: libgcj maintenance for 4.0.x branch

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Anthony Green writes:
 > Michael Koch has volunteered to maintain the GCC 4.0.x branch for
 > libgcj.  This basically involves moving approved patches from HEAD back
 > to the branch.
 > 
 > It would be good to set up some kind of policy for what patches should
 > be acceptable.  Perhaps something like this already exists.
 > 
 > My suggestion is simply to make the golden rule:
 > 
 > "Programs built against libgcj 4.0.a should link correctly against
 > libgcj 4.0.b where a<b."

Wherever possible, yes.  I don't think this amounts to a commitment to
maintain all bugs forever.

 > So this means chunks of new library code should be OK, even if the
 > existence of that new library code should cause different behaviour in a
 > program built against an older version of libgcj.  This gives us lots of
 > flexibility and should be relatively easy to guarantee - a nice trade-
 > off between stability and the desire for some continuous innovation on
 > the FC4 platform (which is using GCC 4.0.x as the system compiler).
 > 
 > I've discussed this with tromey and he agrees with this plan.
 > 
 > Any comments?

Sounds good.

Andrew.