Proposed gfortran development branch

[Jerry DeLisle]

Daniel Franke wrote:
> On Saturday 21 March 2009 16:46:01 Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>> Does this plan seem reasonable?
> 
> Generally yes. Just one question: how about the not-so-small bug-fix patches 
> that do not introduce new features, that should not go to trunk yet, but get 
> in the way of ones progress. Can these be committed to gfortran-dev as well, 
> to be merged into trunk later or do we need to stack them somewhere for 
> integration into trunk directly?

I think they should go into the dev branch for the following reasons:

- dev branch is a convenient holding mechanism, it won't get lost.

- It allows broader testing on multiple platforms and interaction with 
other patches.

- It clears the way for continuing other development.

Good question,

Jerry