On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Basile Starynkevitch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a few subscribers to a french speaking GCC MELT mailing list on > [email protected] > > Since I have several potential non-french speaking but english-speaking > users, I am considering to switch to an english list. > > However, my intuition is that a list for plugins developers (including GCC > MELT extensions developers) could be more generally useful. > > Those developers have a different point of view than those at [email protected].*. > On gcc@ list, we discuss how to change and improve GCC internals. > > On a plugin list, we would discuss how to develop GCC plugins (& MELT > extensions). The point of view is becoming slightly different: plugin > developpers take the GCC plugin API as granted (whatever definition of the > GCC API you take, provided it is usable from inside a plugin to an unmodified > GCC). > > Of course, I could very easily setup a list like [email protected] to > discuss GCC MELT in english, but I would believe that a more general "plugin" > focussed list, hosted inside gcc.gnu.org, would be very useful. > > What do people think? Should plugin developers post their GCC plugins > questions on the existing [email protected].* list, or should we (ideally) make a > new [email protected] list?
We have repeatedly decided against splitting up lists on gcc.gnu.org. No need to have another bikeshedding discussion around it. Richard.
