libgcj maintenance for 4.0.x branch

Fri Apr 15 19:39:00 GMT 2005

Anthony Green wrote:
> Michael Koch has volunteered to maintain the GCC 4.0.x branch for
> libgcj. This basically involves moving approved patches from HEAD back
> to the branch.
>> It would be good to set up some kind of policy for what patches should
> be acceptable. Perhaps something like this already exists.
>> My suggestion is simply to make the golden rule:
>> "Programs built against libgcj 4.0.a should link correctly against
> libgcj 4.0.b where a<b."
>> So this means chunks of new library code should be OK, even if the
> existence of that new library code should cause different behaviour in a
> program built against an older version of libgcj. This gives us lots of
> flexibility and should be relatively easy to guarantee - a nice trade-
> off between stability and the desire for some continuous innovation on
> the FC4 platform (which is using GCC 4.0.x as the system compiler).
>
How does this differ from the rules for C, C++ and the C++ library?
If it is different, why? And isn't it really some the SC should decide?
David Daney