Re: [RFC] Ada Support Plan

Andrew Cagney
2002-05-01T14:13:21Z

> Evening all. I got the copyright assignment forms back from the FSF
> today. :)
>
> So I've been thinking about how to go about feeding the patches to the
> list, and basically came up with this:
>
> 1. patches to files that the ada-* files need (I *think* this is a
> no-op, but I'm checking atm).

I'm not sure. See below.

> 2. patches for the ada-* files and Makefile.in
>
> 3. patches for enabling ada support in the internals
>
> 4. patches to "set lang ada" and detect when to go into ada mode.
>
> Does this seem reasonable? Is there a better way of doing it?

Have a look at what Petr Sorfa proposed for f95. My take on his strategy
is to first get something that compiles and vagely works into the FSF
repository and then, using that as a starting / discussion / reference
point, integrate the more intrusive changes.

I think you're proposing the same strategy.

Andrew