On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 14:57 -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Although you have listed it as "stage 2", I wish to commit the finished > > portion as soon as possible during stage 1. I have maintainership authority > > to do so. This will not interfere in any way with *any* of the projects > > approved for stage 1, since it is in a disjoint section of code. > > If it breaks bootstrap, it will definitely interfere. [...]
People do break Ada bootstrap because they don't configure and test Ada, they don't configure Ada because they complained about Ada build machinery being non standard, delaying Ada build machinery changes will only make things worse for Ada bootstrap statistics. More Ada testing is a good thing and I believe it's not only for Ada, the Ada build and test has been a "good" provider of real non Ada specific problems over the past few monthes. BTW, I tested some version of Nathanael changes with native and cross, and it worked after one iteration (in the cross case), so I don't expect major breakage ahead (but I'm not an Ada maintainer). Laurent
