On Apr 2, 2006, at 3:20 AM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
The fact is, that the GNU Pascal crew did not want integration with gcc the last time this was discussed. GCC, the project, can not just suck in every front end out there if the maintainers of that front end do not want that.
Actually, it can if certain conditions are met. :-) Roughly, copyright has to be clear and assigned to the FSF, and someone has to be willing to step forward and argue for it and do the grunt work of integrating it and hopefully volunteer to step forward and maintain it. This person need not be the original author(s).
Wasn't Fortran an existence proof?
