Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Steven Bosscher]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 17:13, Helge Hess wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2005, at 16:32, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > You're forgetting that this is a volunteer project.  We can't force
> > developers to work on something they don't want to work on.
>
> Every project has rules which need to be followed, even by volunteers.
> And in the past is was usual behaviour, if not unwritten law, not to
> break other people's stuff.

Nobody broke other people's stuff.  Other people's stuff was itself
broken and it just happened to work with some luck.

> Sure, modifications are allowed, but if you change something you need
> to take care it doesn't affect other parts _of the same project_. And
> cc1obj _is_ (still?) a part of GCC.

So is C/C++, so perhaps you can convince the people pushing ObjC++
that your argument is valid.  We have already tried that without luck.

> I think thats pretty much the usual way how all projects work.

It is also how GCC works.

> Its a 
> matter of fairness with the other project members.

You seem to imply some project members treat objc unfair, but you just
so miss the point.

Gr.
Steven