Re: [PATCH] Add support for GNU/Hurd in gnat-4.9
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 10:47 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Wed 21 May 2014 10:40:37 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > 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?
>
> Count for what?
>
> Opensource is about patches correctness, not people fame.
>
> If anybody, whoever he is, takes up the work and produces correct
> patches, then they'll be applied. It's as simple as this.
In this case if long term support can be guaranteed, yes!
> > > > > > (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 same happens for plain C, C++, etc on outdated architectures.
>
> Uh? I'm not sure what you mean here. What I understand is "why not
> remove support for GNU/Hurd?" which'd mean dropping your patches.
How can they be removed, they are not upstream yet?
> I guess that's not what you want, so I don't know what you meant.
If that happens -> means if the port is bitrotting for a long time just
remove support upstream. We were talking upstream here, not Debian ...
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