GCC integration?

[E. Weddington]

Russell Whitaker wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
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>>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
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>>>IMHO you would get more testers (users) automatically if GPC would be
>>>included into the GCC repository.  And it would be much easier to
>>>contribtueif the code could be checked out via CVS and so there would
>>>be also a better chance to recruit more developers .
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>>Indeed.  If it were on a devel branch at GCC CVS, a certain number of us
>>GCC hackers would work to integrate it and get the branch merged; as it
>>is, it's really rather inconvient to do such integration work
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>>For example, I'm working on cleaning up the icky Ada configury, not
>>because I know anything about Ada, but because it's part of GCC and I
>>don't like having ickinesses like that in GCC mainline.
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>>In contrast, I actually do know something about Pascal.
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>Perhaps GPC could be integrated with GCC-3.3.6 which is scheduled for
>release April 30, 2005
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>As far as I know GPC compiles nicely with GCC-3.3.5 so the problems
>with the integration might be mostly political.
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Why would the problems be mostly political? From what I can tell, isn't 
GPC under the GNU aegis, same as GCC?
Or do you mean political issues with the two camps of developers? (which 
would make sense to me)

Eric