On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 10:26 +1300, David Koontz wrote: > On 15 Dec 2013, at 7:37 am, Joris van Rantwijk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2013-12-14, Brian Drummond wrote: > >> I would strongly advise that either you take the Sourceforge > >> repository, or if you must keep gna.org, that you take the entire set > >> of recent patches from Sourceforge as a single step rather than > >> selecting a subset of them. Otherwise there is a danger of building > >> an inconsistent version and reintroducing incompatibilities. > > > > It is clear that you are doing good and sorely needed work, and > > Sourceforge is the place where things are happening right now. > > > > However, Debian packages are not normally supposed to track > > development; they are supposed to contain stable, released software. > > So I will have to figure out a way to keep the Debian package on the > > stable branch of GHDL, without going all the way back to 0.29. > > > Brian is in control of ghdl releases.
(dammit, but I don't WANT to be :-) > If he needs to do something to make the ghdl release system compatible with > Debian releases, now is the time to do it. In case you can't tell doing so > is very important to the ghdl developers. I don't expect the as now > envisioned > and unimplemented ghdl-0.30 to be useful to Debian, which says the easiest > thing might to be to deprecate the un-implemented release and call the next > one 0.30. Brian has been responsible for every revision to the code base > since svn -r150 on gna.org. A few patches have come from others, and a lot of guidance from David. > I'd imagine his jump to 0.31 intended to delineate > his contributions from Tristan's. I just want to correct this : there were a few ghdl builds based on gcc4.7[.2], Joris's included. Not much popularity; for Debian it didn't make sense while Gnat was stuck down-revision (in part due to ghdl pinning Gnat4.3?4? in place) In my mind, ALL those 4.7 builds, whether Tristan's and mine, are 0.30[dev], even though there was never a formal release by that name. Not to delineate my work from Tristan's but 4.7 from 4.8 and my fumbling in the dark from the hopefully better effort this time. > The specific solution to all of this might be for Brian to release as 0.30 > (as soon as practical) on SourceForge, . There has been no intervening 0.30 > release. (And that likely deserves italics). The move to 0.31 is simply intended to delineate 4.8 builds from 4.7 builds. Thus I would like, if we agree, for all 4.8 builds to be 0.31 (with apologies to Tristan for "wasting" a release number). I had hoped to make an announcement to that effect in a couple more days but that seems to have been overtaken by events and it's probably better that we're discussing it. Or is there a compelling reason for not wasting a number? Convince me and I'll patch it back and add notes to all those bug reports. > ghdl --version > GHDL 0.31dev (20132311) [Dunoon edition] > Compiled with GNAT Version: GPL 2013 (20130314) > GCC back-end code generator > Written by Tristan Gingold. Thanks David! - Brian _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
