Re: [PATCH] Add support for GNU/Hurd in gnat-4.9
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 10:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Wed 21 May 2014 10:20:16 +0200, a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 10:03 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Svante Signell, le Wed 21 May 2014 09:49:59 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > Thomas and Samuel: It looks like upstream don't accept patches unless a
> > > > Hurd port maintainer commits to it. What's the use of all this job?
> > >
> > > Well, simply to keep the changes working. That is not surprising at all.
> >
> > I might not be interested any longer with this kind of requirements.
>
> Well, then somebody else will have to if we want to keep the gnat port
> alive. I for myself don't really have time to do it.
Understood
> > What kind of person do you have to be to be accepted, a GNU/Hurd
> > developer or a GNU/Ada developer having a gnu.org account?
>
> Nothing special, just like for contributing to any opensource project;
> just someone who checks from times to times (in particular before
> releases) that the port works fine, and submit patches if needed.
I've been working on the Hurd port of gnat since late 2011 including the
toughest: bootstrapping, does that count?
> > > > (Of course it can at least run on Debian systems if/when accepted.)
> > >
> > > Sure, but will it continue working on the long term? That's the concern
> > > of upstream.
If that happens why not just remove support for that architecture? The
same happens for plain C, C++, etc on outdated architectures.
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