This is the mail archive of the
gdb@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: git is live
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>, Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, gdb <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:00:48 +0400
- Subject: Re: git is live
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <877gd5iyaz dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com> <1382709091 dot 5918 dot 9 dot camel at otta> <CAKOQZ8xh2L_D-gdX2wG7TT0c-r6q4=QXqqFHiUq2WPO-3b3t-Q at mail dot gmail dot com> <5284ACD1 dot 8090609 at arm dot com> <20131114111140 dot GF12772 at adacore dot com> <83r4ajym3z dot fsf at gnu dot org> <CAKOQZ8yUAguYN5HcCNrOAKmdw3CHj6f2Opf5Y9TXyax5UvbaRA at mail dot gmail dot com> <CAMe9rOrVq=g1N5LM_oxHHPiKhLKigZBHvw9ZXHurKpoeLevXxQ at mail dot gmail dot com> <20131114181447 dot GI12772 at adacore dot com> <CA+=Sn1=sG-CivHDeoSyakDzBWuYP48y39JDys9FTizFzSyQCVg at mail dot gmail dot com>
> > I'm mildly in favor of permitting vendor branches on gcc.gnu.org for a
> > different reason: it encourages vendors with GCC extensions to make
> > those extensions readily available to everybody. If we require
> > vendors to handle their own hosting, we will inevitably have some who
> > simply decide not to bother.
>
> I think the same is true of gdb and binutils to some extend. And yes
> most of the vendors have patches on top of the base versions of gdb,
> binutils and gcc.
OK, I can see this being true, indeed.
--
Joel