[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] Upgrade gcc 4.6.0 to latest on FSF 4.6 branch

[Koen Kooi]

Op 14 jun 2011, om 11:28 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:

> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 10:12 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 21:03 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> This patch brings in new patches from gcc 4.6 FSF branch
>>>> And refreshes the headers of existing backported patches
>>>> to not have git patch numbers in comments
>>>> 
>>>> I am not sending the patch itself to mailing list due to its
>>>> large size so please review it on the contrib tree itself
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Would we not be better off just pulling the tip of the 4.6 branch from
>>> FSF SVN, rather than having to keep all these patches in git?
>>> 
>> 
>> there is dislike for this approach in oe-core. As the release point is preferred
>> I suggested to drop the minor release number and call the recipes 4.6
>> and use SVN
>> REVs to track the recipe updates but it did not fly :)
> 
> Where does that dislike come from?  Koen did make a comment about having
> liked svn checkouts for 4.5 "very, very much" but I couldn't quite
> figure out whether he was being sarcastic or not and, if so, what
> exactly his objection was.

I wasn't being sarcastic, I really like it very, very much.