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>>>>> Michael Sokolov writes: Michael> I'm sorry that you've failed to see the whole point of my article, which is to Michael> persuade the powers that be to merge the src and gcc repos. What's keeping GCC Michael> in its own repo are the people on the GNU side of things who see it as Michael> independent from the Cygnus tree. But what I'm arguing in my article is that Michael> this perception of GCC's independence from the Cygnus tree by some GCC Michael> maintainers is bogus. To become really independent, they would have to really Michael> break all ties with the Cygnus tree, removing the top-level configure script Michael> and Makefile that support the rest of the tree and taking away the single tree Michael> build. I very seriously doubt that they'll be able to do that, unless they Michael> commit the change anonymously so that the angry mob of embedded developers Michael> using the single tree build doesn't get them, and if they are not going to do Michael> that, they are still tied to the Cygnus tree whether they are in the main repo Michael> with the master copies of the top-level files or using stale mirrors of those Michael> files in their own repo, and everyone would benefit and no one would lose Michael> anything from switching to the former. No one sees the trees as independent and no one is trying to keep the independent. No one is arguing against merging the trees. It simply takes time and effort which no one has time to tackle at the moment. The only concern is being able to make a single, coordinated distribution in the face of the different schedules of the various packages. One still can create a release branch and stabilize the various dependent components in that branch for a particular package (gcc, binutils, gdb, etc.). I do not understand why you insist on looking for conspiracies and attributing ulterior motives where there are none. Have you ever heard of "Occam's razor"? If there is a simple explanation, it most likely is correct. David ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com
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