Subject: Re: gcc3 package(s)
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/14/2003 01:02:24
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> Of course it should be a meta-pkg. If anyone wants an untrammeled,
> as-distributed-by-gnu gcc-3.3/3.3.1, he can download a snapshot, or
> check it out via anoncvs, and build it. One motivation for the split
Hmm.. It's not that easy. gcc still needs some patches and a pkg is just=20
more convient.

> was to simplify the maintenance burden, so that a committer could
> build and test a patch to gcc-c without having to build libjava. This
I don't see that breaking a big and rather complex piece of software into=20
pieces simplifies the maintenance burden. IMHO a maintainer has to rebuild=20
the complete suite anyway, to check that his/her patch didn't break any=20
other part.

> purpose is defeated by keeping gcc3 around as it is: currently, there
> are two packages that would need to be built and tested.
Yes, that should be changed. By reverting the change(s) and make it one big =

pkg again or by making lang/gcc a meta-pkg. (But that's the
decision of the maintainer, since he has all the work...)

Marc
mundus es fabula
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