Russell Whitaker wrote:
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
IMHO you would get more testers (users) automatically if GPC would be included into the GCC repository. And it would be much easier to contribtueif the code could be checked out via CVS and so there would be also a better chance to recruit more developers .
Indeed. If it were on a devel branch at GCC CVS, a certain number of us GCC hackers would work to integrate it and get the branch merged; as it is, it's really rather inconvient to do such integration work
For example, I'm working on cleaning up the icky Ada configury, not because I know anything about Ada, but because it's part of GCC and I don't like having ickinesses like that in GCC mainline.
In contrast, I actually do know something about Pascal.
Perhaps GPC could be integrated with GCC-3.3.6 which is scheduled for release April 30, 2005
As far as I know GPC compiles nicely with GCC-3.3.5 so the problems with the integration might be mostly political.
Why would the problems be mostly political? From what I can tell, isn't GPC under the GNU aegis, same as GCC? Or do you mean political issues with the two camps of developers? (which would make sense to me)
Eric