[gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-04-09

[Ryan Hill]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 22:24:16 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:24:10 -0400
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 09 April 2013 01:57:47 Michał Górny wrote:
> > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 23:20:28 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote:
> > > > If someone else wants to try and improve the situation, please feel
> > > > free.
> > >
> > > Just to be sure -- would you be ok if we tried to inline some
> > > of the eclass code into the ebuilds (future versions/revbumps)?
> >
> > not really.  you can still build gcc-2.95 and newer with the current code,
> > but the amount of "tc_version_is_at_least" is fairly low.  from time to
> > time, people also create their own gcc ebuild forks which use this eclass
> > either because it's a completely different code base, orit has some serious
> > patches that we aren't interested in carrying, or people want to
> > experiment.  current examples: kgcc64 msp430 gcc-apple.  we've had other
> > embedded works in the past, as well as hardened ones.
>
> Then please don't create a fake feeling like you're going to accept
> help to improve the situation.

These are things the eclass has to support and the restraints we have to work
under.  Don't throw a snit if you don't like the problem space.


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