Comments on Patching GCC

[Daniel Berlin]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
>> Right, which is why i was going to do it based on attachments, the 
>> patch
>> keyword and attachment flag, and keep track of the obsoletes flag you
>> can set on attachments :)
>
> If patch attachments are to be used as a standard means of patch
> submission for review, then Bugzilla should automatically send those
> attachments - in plain text and in the body of the message, not a 
> separate
> MIME part - to gcc-patches, so they can readily be quoted in replies 
> etc..
>

See, this is the whole problem.
You guys want both something that tracks patches, *and* integrates well 
with email.
Nobody makes such a beast, and it's very non-trivial :)
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