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. > And occasional backporting of bugfixes should be not a too great burden. The sky is blue in my world. > I definitely hope we're not ending up applying large fortran changes to > a release series again. (Ok, 4.0 _was_ special ...) Whatever. -- Steve
