On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, François Dumont wrote: > I have created yesterday the libstdcxx_so_7-2-branch in the gcc repo > that only contains the libstdc++-v3 folder. This branch will contain all > the abi breaking changes that are plan to be moved to trunk as soon as > the decision to break the abi will have been taken. Paolo Carlini advise > me to write you, and the mailing list, to ask if you could document it > on this page:
Thanks for the heads up, François (and thanks for Paolo for the reference ;-). Based on your mail, how about the following change to the web page? Should (also) others be listed as branch maintainers? Is there a specific way patches to that branch should be labled in the subject, similar to other branches? Any other changes? Gerald Index: svn.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/svn.html,v retrieving revision 1.167 diff -u -3 -p -r1.167 svn.html --- svn.html 1 Feb 2012 19:55:33 -0000 1.167 +++ svn.html 12 Feb 2012 22:21:54 -0000 @@ -486,6 +486,12 @@ the command <code>svn log --stop-on-copy Only patches backported from mainline are accepted. They should be marked with the tag [4_4-plugins] in the Subject line.</dd> + <dt>libstdcxx_so_7-2-branch</dt> + <dd>This branch carries all ABI breaking changes to libstdc++ that + will be merged to trunk once the decision to break the C++ ABI is + taken. <a href="mailto:frs.dum...@gmail.com">François Dumont</a> + maintains this branch.</dd> + <dt>pph</dt> <dd>This branch implements <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/pph"> Pre-Parsed Headers for C++</a>. It is maintained by <a