What's the current state of D?

Leandro Lucarella llucax at gmail.com
Mon May 11 17:04:26 PDT 2009


Frits van Bommel, el 11 de mayo a las 22:15 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >GDB people have spoken (I don't see you subscribed to the bug report so
> >I transcribe the comment from GDB):
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >For a patch this size we would need copyright assignments from all
> >the authors of the patch.  I would suggest emailing the gdb list
> >and asking for the paperwork; one of the maintainers will get you started.
> >Also, send the patch to the gdb-patches list, as described here:
> >http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gdb/CONTRIBUTE?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
> >gdb doesn't really use bugzilla for patch tracking, much.
> >I glanced quickly at the patch; it will need some reformatting and it will
> >need to be rebased to the current cvs.  It may require other changes, too,
> >but I didn't read that closely.
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >When all licensing issues are resolved I can do any adjustments to the
> >patch to comply with GDB coding style and rebase it to current CVS if the
> >original author is missing.
> 
> If the original author is missing, you have a bigger problem. He
> presumably needs to sign the paperwork they mentioned...

Yes, I meant if he is alive and willing to give the rights to GDB but
don't want to bother to fix the style and rebase the patch himself.

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