Sandbox branch for gfortran 4.5 patches

[Mikael Morin]

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> regarding the sandbox branch: I'm not sure how useful it is; after all,
> we want to apply the patches one-by-one when 4.5 opens and not as a huge
> chunk - and splitting them will not be easy. Additionally, one needs to
> merge the trunk into the branch regularly, which also not always works.
> Thus, I think it does not make much sense to have a branch for all the
> little patches. However, one could consider a sandbox branch for the I/O
> patches, which allows better (regression)testing and makes sense since
> at least 3 developers are involved.
> 
I agree with that. A separate branch will probably reduce the test
coverage of new patches, and will make it harder to track regressions
coming from a big merge. However I'm not against a temporary test branch
before stage1 opens.

Mikael