RFC: future gfortran development and subversion

[Andrew Pinski]

On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:36 PM, FX Coudert wrote:

>> A regression is a bug that was not in release N - M and was discovered
>> in release N.  You are then free to fix N - M + 1 to N.  Like you have
>> a testcase that crashes gfortran on 4.1.0, but did not on 4.0.2.
>
> But then, you'll explain people that they won't have a decent fortran 
> compiler in distros before <insert here a date somewhere in early 
> 2007>.

Hey that was how it was done back in the EGCS days anyways.  This is 
same reason
why some distro used EGCS instead of GCC.  But we (GCC) should not 
worry about
this any more, if a distro wants to backport a patch, they are more than
welcome to.

GCC and gfortran (and gcj) should all play by the normal rules that we 
made
to GCC so that we don't spend too much time backporting (and looking
backwards) instead of fixing bugs.

-- Pinski