basic-improvements merge status

[Geoff Keating]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> It is not clear to me that any purpose is served by holding off the
> merge to trunk until all these issues get resolved.  We could instead
> do the merge now and fix the problems on the mainline; this would let
> people move forward with other work.

I don't know what 'people' are helped by having the mainline
unbuildable and untestable.  I'm very unhappy about the way this
merge was handled.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>