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Re: Ada mainline
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 23:04, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Now I am puzzled, we make updates to the front end nearly
> every day, and yet you think we should not contribute
> patches with that frequency.
>
You contribute the patches at whatever frequency you want. They get
independently approved at whatever frequency the reviewers approve
them. Do I really have to explain such basic mechanisms to you?
> > Every single individual patch should be submitted and committed separately.
> > Period.
>
> It's not always clear what constitutes a "single individual patch".
>
Have you read and understood http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html? If
that doesn't answer your questions, we should probably add the missing
bits.
> We often do major reorganizations of the sources. These are represented
> as a collection of individual patches, but I am not sure what you
> would expect here.
>
You should know. Source reorgs have happened many times on gcc-patches.
> Perhaps what would be helpful is to take one of the daily patches
> that Arno did, and say exactly what you would have found helpful.
> It will also be helpful to know if you are speaking as someone
> expert in the Ada standard or not.
>
Read http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html.
> I assume for you a patch is all related changes. By the way, more than
> half the patches are just collections of minor stylistic reformatting
> (mostly done by me). These I would assume you have no objection to
> batching, since they certainly don't require any discussion or review.
>
Read http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html. Do you know what the 'obvious
rule' is?
Diego.