On 10/19/05, Steve Kargl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:06:44PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote: > > On 10/19/05, Tobias Schl?ter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > Now, to my proposal for future gfortran development post 4.1 branching. > > > > When (if) svn becomes the source code revision tool, I propose that all > > > > future work be done solely on mainline. No individual patches can be > > > > merged into 4.1. The 4.0 branch will be dead. Periodically, say > > > > bi-weekly > > > > or monthly, we do a merge from mainline into 4.1. The aim is to keep > > > > 4.1 > > > > and mainline sufficiently in sync and to minimize the requirements of > > > > additional hardware (except for the day or two required for the merge) > > > > and > > > > to maximize our time investment. > > > > Dude, I hope fortran will, after branching of 4.1, follow the usual rules > > of regression fixes only. This means development will be on mainline > > only anyways, as for any other language. > > Please define regression.
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. Richard.
