Re: [PATCH] Unbounded array support implemented (for Modula-2)

[Gaius Mulley <gaius at glam dot ac dot uk>]

Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> writes:

> I don't know how much work this is, but if there were some way you
> could get GNU Modula-2 into Fedora Core or Fedora Extras, I think that
> might increase your audience a bit.  These days, if I can't install
> something by typing 'sudo yum install foo', I move on to something
> else.

yes true, I'm currently (when I'm near a fast machine) trying to build
GNU Modula-2 as a cross compiler for the avr as a Debian package.
Debian's package build mechanism is pretty awesome - but it eats dual
core, sata II machines for breakfast..  I've recently looked at the
Debian host GCC package - and I'm aiming to release gm2 grafted onto a
gcc-4.1.2.  Although it will probably be a much simplified package
build as opposed to the GCC Debian package - just to reduce time to
market etc.  I'm hoping Debian's 'alien' package should turn it into a
RPM successfully.

> (By the way, what's entailed in getting GNU Modula-2 into the main GCC
> sources?)

truthfully I'm not sure of the exact procedure to get it into the
main GCC trunk.  However I know that I can place gm2 into the GCC svn
tree as a branch and then attempt to keep pack-porting the new patches
from the trunk to the gm2 branch.  I suppose if enough people found it
useful and interesting maybe it would make it into the main truck..

Also I suspect that as patches get submitted to GCC for support for
various gm2 features (unbounded arrays, set types) this might provide
a little leverage to integrate the two.

regards,
Gaius