Sorry that I wasn't very specific with my question. I m currently wrapping up the conversion of mudflap into a plugin. Most of the required patches have being approved and committed, so I was thinking ahead as to where the the plugin code will reside. Thanks for the information and the link
tunji On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Diego Novillo<dnovi...@google.com> wrote: > [ Moved to gcc@ ] > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 14:30, Olatunji Ruwase<tjruw...@google.com> wrote: > >> Has any decision being made on how plugins will be distributed with >> future releases. Is there going to be a plugins directory ?. >> Thanks > > We may want to produce some plugins that are useful for GCC > development and distribute them with the compiler, but in general I > don't think we should get in the habit of incorporating 3rd party > plugins in GCC. This would be detrimental to one of the useful > properties of plugins (i.e., less code we need to maintain). > > I set up a landing page where projects can register their plugins > (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins). My suggestion is to use that page > as the central plugins directory, with the assumption that we (GCC) > are not the maintainers of those packages. We simply provide a link > to them. > > > Diego. >
