--- AWLaFramboise@... wrote: > In a message dated 5/14/2003 8:45:57 PM Eastern
Standard Time,
> danny_r_smith_2001@... writes:
> > > Is there more than one branch, to match the GCC release
> > > and mainline branches?
> > 
> > No. 
> > The idea is to get all the ming and cygwin local changes into 
> > mainstream FSF CVS, so that there is no need for a branch.
> > We are getting there.
> > Mingw Java developers have been particularly active and the ReactOs
> > people have also added a fair chunk.
> 
> I don't understand two things.
> 
> I see these GCC .diff files for every MinGW GCC release.
> Where are they coming from?  Where is the MinGW GCC source
> tree residing?  On a maintainer's hard drive, perhaps? =)
> 
Yes, mine, for now.  But that is not satisfactory from my point of view
either.  

> What specifically keeps these patches from being committed?

Time. Also, many heavy gcc developers have more importnat things to
review than patches for an unsupported platform like mingw. 
Cygwin, at least, is considered a secondary platform.

> As I understand it, as long as patches are specific to
> a particular backend, as the MinGW changes should be,
> the backend maintainer can commit them herself.  

Most mingw changes also apply to cygwin and possibly interix or arm-pe.

I have been doing an experiment to see if anyone else could bother
to submit patches for even simple very mingw specific things
(like defining __GTHREAD_HIDE_W32API in libstdc++'s os_defines.h.)
Unfortunately, the null hypothesis of the experiment stands.

In any case,
> I can't imagine what horrible things MinGW would be doing
> that would be so much more horrible than all of the other
> horrible things that are happening on mainline..
> 
Golly, there are beautiful things happening on mainline. I'm tempted to
give up on mingw and play with a real OS for awhile.
> > 
> > Would you like to help?
> 
> What exactly needs to be done?  I have some little experience
> with GCC backends but no experience with GCC frontend code;
> Am I capable of helping?  If so, I certainly want to help,
> if someone would clarify for me what needs to be done, and
> what isn't being done by anyone else.
> 
Stop asking "what can I do" questions and do something, anything, 
and see where that leads.
Danny

> 
> Aaron
>  

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