From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2028 invoked by alias); 1 May 2002 14:13:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2021 invoked from network); 1 May 2002 14:13:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 May 2002 14:13:20 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB1E3CBA; Wed, 1 May 2002 10:13:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CCFF7FB.5060308@cygnus.com> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 07:13:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aidan Skinner Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Ada Support Plan References: <20020428023948.D3067@velvet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 > 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