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Re: Clarify rules for testing patches
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:39:57 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: Clarify rules for testing patches
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> What do you think of this? (patches are unreadable so I'm just
> attaching both complete files).
What file version are these supposed to be based on? You seem to be
reverting a lot of clarifying changes to those files from the past few
months.
> improvements, etc. for GCC</p>
Should be a full stop at the end of the sentence.
> underfull hboxes from <code>make dvi</code>.) Changes to the web
> site must <a href="http://validator.w3.org/">validate</a> as HTML
> 4.01 Transitional.</li>
It's the preprocessed files that should validate, not those in CVS (which
lack DOCTYPE etc.).
> <p>We accept patches as plain text (preferred for the compilers
> themselves), MIME attachments (preferred for the web pages),
> or as uuencoded gzipped text.</p>
There should perhaps be some clarification based on the recent discussions
of MIME.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk