On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Earl Chew wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > If you have a patch that's ready to go, I'll review it. If it isn't > > ready to go then there's not anything for me to do as far as I can tell. > > > > If you're asking me to work on it, then that is something I don't have > > time to do. > > I'm asking whether I should be submitting a patch against 3.4.1 or > 3.4.2. > > Cygwin seems to be at 3.4.1. > > The gcc folks seem to be at 3.4.2 or later.
I haven't reviewed your patch in detail, but let me give you my impressions of protocol. Since you claim this patch needs more work before it can be accepted into the FSF gcc source tree, then your only option prior to that work is to lobby the Cygwin gcc maintainer, here in this list, to make this a Cygwin local patch. Cygwin maintainers however, generally prefer not to maintain local patches unless they are critical bug fixes because of the amount of work involved. They also generally prefer to push those patches upstream as soon as possible. Given this, and my experience trying to do something similar (I have patches to support DWARF 2 accepted into FSF gcc 4.0, but not yet in any Cygwin gcc release), I suggest you first make the patch acceptable to the FSF gcc maintainers. Then, it will be easier to lobby the Cygwin gcc maintainer to include it. Or, more likely, you may just have to wait for the trickle down effect (like I am). Note also that only "safe" bug fixes for regressions are usually applied to gcc branch (ie. dot) releases. Your non regression patch would probably be best suited for gcc 4.0, or later given I think it is in feature freeze right now. If you can persuade the Cygwin gcc maintainer to incorporate your patch, then you will have to work with him on which version he would like the patch for. CGF is no longer the Cygwin gcc maintainer. He is, however, the Cygwin gcc port maintainer for the FSF gcc tree. Does any of this help you understand where CGF is coming from? -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
