GSoC Blog Post 0 - GCCprefab build system

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On 17 June 2022 21:55:47 CEST, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 08:45:04PM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer via Gcc wrote:
>> PS: we should rm https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=contrib/gcc_build
>
>No.  gcc_build is used by maintainer-scripts/gcc_release, so by killing it
>you'd make gcc unreleasable.

Doh, didn't grep in maintainer-scripts.
So, should the SVN parts be ripped out?

For non-maintainers, switch it to git instead?

>> It was not updated since the switch to git so, apparently, nobody uses it anymore (sadly, seeing who authored it).

The hunks talking about subversion do seem to be misleading nowadays, aren't they?

thanks,