On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:02:44PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote: > As was said before, the difficultly in people working with GCC is > primarily lack of adequate documentation. Creating a "plugin" interface > is certainly much more fun than writing documentation, but doesn't help > this issue nearly as much. Moreover, writing documentation is not a > potential legal threat while plugins are. To me, that argues strongly > against plugins and in favor of much more documentation.
More documentation: a good thing. Contributions welcome. Plugins a potential legal threat: you must be using "legal threat" in some strange way I don't understand, but I don't see them as a threat at all. In any case, the two issues are orthogonal.
