Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: libffi - High level programming interface to various calling conventions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431633 ------- Additional Comments From rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx 2008-02-07 07:05 EST ------- (In reply to comment #12) > (In reply to comment #11) > > Unlike zlib, the upstream for libffi is in GCC - Otherwise Spot would not have > > to lift the code from GCC's code base. > > It's true that for the past 10 years virtually all development has happened > within the GCC project. However, the FSF has always been clear that libffi is > not part of GCC. Can you provide any evidence for this statement? Being a GCC developer myself I have never heard about any such statement, I knew there had your libffi project before, .. it had been absorbed by GCC like many other comparable projects, causing its former upstream to die. > It is just distributed along with GCC for convenience. GCC > has never installed libffi as a user library. A fact which could easily be changed. > It is only used to enable libgcj. Check libffi's ChangeLog and you will probably noticed that I know about this. It's one reason why I think applications still using libffi outside of GCC probably had been based on your ancient libffi-1.2 or have lifted the code from GCC. > Given libffi's continued use outside of the GCC project, I recently decided to > start making independent libffi releases again. See this thread: > http://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2008/msg00000.html Of cause it's your liberty to resume the work you abandoned many years ago and to launch a fork based on GCC's source. I wonder if GCC-SC knows about your decision and what they think about it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review