Re: [Reproducible-builds] GCC patch reviewed. Proposed mail for gcc-patches mailing list

2015-11-10 Thread Santiago Vila
B1;2802;0cOn Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:41:51AM +, Chris Lamb wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > > So, I don't think that this patch would really be "beneficial to our > > project", as it will only serve to artificially "improve" the statistics. > > Out of interest, would you extend this

Re: [Reproducible-builds] GCC patch reviewed. Proposed mail for gcc-patches mailing list

2015-11-10 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Santiago Vila: > I have very mixed feelings about this kind of patches. > > I fear that by modifying gcc to hide the improper usage of __DATE__ > and __TIME__, we could be removing an incentive for maintainers and > authors to write software which is truly reproducible, i.e. we run > the risk of

Re: [Reproducible-builds] GCC patch reviewed. Proposed mail for gcc-patches mailing list

2015-11-09 Thread Chris Lamb
Santiago Vila wrote: > So, I don't think that this patch would really be "beneficial to our > project", as it will only serve to artificially "improve" the statistics. Out of interest, would you extend this argument to argue for an arbitrary build path? Regards, -- ,''`. : :' :