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Re: [patch] compile: rm -rf -> ftw()+rmdir()+unlink() [Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build]
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: palves at redhat dot com, ktietz at redhat dot com, sellcey at imgtec dot com, brobecker at adacore dot com, yao at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:11:16 +0200
- Subject: Re: [patch] compile: rm -rf -> ftw()+rmdir()+unlink() [Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build]
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:04:45 +0100
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kai Tietz <ktietz@redhat.com>, Steve Ellcey <sellcey@imgtec.com>,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, brobecker@adacore.com,
> yao@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> I am just trying to show (for many years) despite contributor's best effort
> (*) the current GDB project's maintenance requires multiple reimplementations
> of patches until everyone approves the patch as all the requirements are
> nowhere written and the maintainers only show their requirements one after
> another after each of the patch variant is submitted. This leads to the slow
> development of GDB despite a lot of time invested into it.
If this is a problem, how about writing down the requirements?