On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:27:27PM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: > Joel Sherrill wrote: > >Tobias Burnus wrote: > >>According to the GCC 4.4 Release Criteria, > >>http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/criteria.html, only C and C++ are primary > >>languages. And thus only C and C++ regressions can be release critical. > >> > >>I propose to add Fortran to these languages. Reasons: > >> > >>- Fortran is relatively widely used; while C/C++ is wider used, > >>distributions and to a lesser users compile also libraries such as BLAS, > >>LAPACK etc. which are written in Fortran > >> > >>- gfortran has few (known;-) regressions. Currently, PR33296 and > >>PR32841. > >> > >My first thought is does gfortran support and have > >similarly good test results on all primary and secondary > >platforms. > How would anyone judge this, except by referring to gcc-testresults? > gfortran developers have cleared up a number of secondary platform > problems whose counterparts have been allowed to remain in the "primary" > language. In my experience, this supports the "actively maintained" point.
Maybe there could be a "semi-primary" or "experimental primary" status; a feature could be treated as primary, but with the understanding that the requirement will be waived if it causes excessive delay. The "experimental" label could be dropped after a few successful releases.
