On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 08:17 +1100, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Paul Brook wrote:
>
> > The problem is that I don't think writing a detailed "mission statement" is
> > actually going to help anything. It's either going to be gcc contributors
> > writing down what they're doing
On 3/21/07, Nicholas Nethercote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Paul Brook wrote:
> The problem is that I don't think writing a detailed "mission statement" is
> actually going to help anything. It's either going to be gcc contributors
> writing down what they're doing anyway, or
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Paul Brook wrote:
The problem is that I don't think writing a detailed "mission statement" is
actually going to help anything. It's either going to be gcc contributors
writing down what they're doing anyway, or something invented by the SC or
FSF. I the latter case nothing's
> Exactly. I'm viewing the mission statement as the moral equivalent of a
> constitution -- the highest guidelines that you fall back on when
> everything else fails. Your first paragraph above indicates that you view
> it similarly. But it's currently so vague that I don't imagine it's much
> u
On Thu, 21 Mar 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
I think you may misunderstand the mission statement. The mission
statement is not a technical roadmap. It's a statement of general
goals. If the community has a serious disagreement, the mission
statement can sometimes help clarify matters.
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Nicholas Nethercote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
>
> > GCC is a very ambitious compiler:
> >
> > - it supports a lot of platforms
> > - it supports a lot of languages
> >
> > However, most users do not use most of those combinations. The
> > probl
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
GCC is a very ambitious compiler:
- it supports a lot of platforms
- it supports a lot of languages
However, most users do not use most of those combinations. The problem is
that supporting all these combinations hurts the specific combinations
