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Re: testsuite removal
- To: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: testsuite removal
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 11:24:55 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <rzqyanfcdy9.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>you write:
> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> writes:
>
> Jeff> We are going to ask for assignments for signficant tests or
> Jeff> collections of tests. The testsuite will be treated in the
> Jeff> exact same manner as the compiler itself from a legal
> Jeff> standpoint.
>
> That will screw reasonable ideas for Fortran tests with things with
> usable copyright which aren't going to be assigned. However, I don't
> understand why we need assignments for things that aren't considered
> part of the compiler, provided they're obviously redistributable. If
> so, then someone has to rewrite the g77 runtime. Has rms changed
> position on the matter?
Because the testsuite will be considered part of the compiler.
We're not changing anything in regardles of the runtime libraries.
jeff