[Fwd: Re: Fortran Parser -- last call]

[Philippe Marguinaud]

Hi Steve,

Again I would like to stress out that adding this will not hamper the 
development of gfortran. It will only be some extra work for me.
And I do not plan to work for gfortran during working hours. I work at 
home, on my own. Now, if I get run over by a bus ( which of course I 
hope will not happen ), then you will be able to remove very easily the 
changes I made to gfortran, since they will never be useful for regular 
compiling.
Now, I would like that gfortran people decide together and say me yes or no.

Cheers,

Philippe


Steve Kargl a écrit :
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:32:14AM +0100, Philippe Marguinaud wrote:
> 
>> Of course, I know that the parser is something which is evolving all the 
>> time, so if you add a new feature and I have written its counterpart in 
>> the XML output, something will go wrong if somebody tries to dump XML on 
>> some code using this feature. Otherwise regular compile will be OK.
> 
> This is the number one reason why it is a BAD idea to include
> your xml generator in gfortran.  Patches need to be reviewed
> before they can be committed.  Who is going to be the reviewer?
> What happens if you get hit by a bus or your new employer
> forbids you from working on a GPL3 project?  This feature
> will place an undo burden on contributors who are actually
> concerned with making and maintaining gfortran.
> 
> Having submitted a patch for ERRMSG and receiving sufficient
> feedback from Tobias, I realize that I will need to rewrite
> a substantial portion of the parsing of [DE]ALLOCATE.  I
> personally do not want to wade through any unnecessary code.
>