On 10/19/05, Tobias Schlüter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ I've added gcc@ to the CC list and reproduced the message in full, FX > already got the "buy a bigger harddisk" answer there, I think it makes sense > to show that other people care about this, too ] > > 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. And occasional backporting of bugfixes should be not a too great burden. I definitely hope we're not ending up applying large fortran changes to a release series again. (Ok, 4.0 _was_ special ...) Richard.
