Re: [PATCH]: Updates to Ada sources, part 1 (longish)

Joel Brobecker
2004-06-03T04:41:03Z

> ``Tough'' because of the sheer volume of changes, or for some other
> reason? (I understand that you didn't keep the logs of the changes
> internally, is that right?)

Just sheer volume. We have kept our own changelog of changes (see
gdb/ChangeLog.GNAT which can be fetched via anonymous CVS at
libre.act-europe.fr), but just copy-pasting them wouldn't help, because
all these changes overlap. So we would have to write a sumary of the
changes we made in the past 2+ years after reading the patch. I think
it's going to be a lot of work doing that.

> Anyway, I realize that it would be a lot of work to write all the
> entries now (although it's almost mechanichal work), but perhaps at
> least the major changes could be described for specific functions, and
> new functions could be described as such?

It's the maintainers call. If you think we should do it, we'll do it.
But I personally think this is going to be time wasted. We've tried
to be careful to put the explantations as to why we are doing such and
such things directly in the code, and we will be happy to add more
comments in the sources if there are places where it would be useful.

--
Joel