Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:23:59PM -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote: >> On Wednesday 10 December 2008 12:55:34 pm Orion Poplawski wrote: >>> Any chance of seeing the GCC UPC compiler in Fedora? Could it be its >>> own package even though it's basically a patch on top of GCC? >> Is there any reason not to provide it as part of GCC given that it simply >> extends the functionality of GCC (adds another language frontend)? Does > > Yes, very important reason. From what I see, it has been ported to GCC > 4.2.x and 3.4.x, that's not sufficient for Fedora, where we'll soon be > switching to GCC 4.4.x. > >> upstream plan to get its patches included in GCC upstream? > > Unless they actually get them incorporated into upstream GCC, they won't > be in Fedora primary gcc packages. Yes, this is a crazy situation. They're condemned forever to be scrambling to keep up with gcc unless they submit the patches upstream. Everything I've seen in the upc/ dir is marked "Copyright (C) XXXX Free Software Foundation, Inc." ... so presumably thay have no objection to submitting it. Baffled, Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
