Hi all, Every now and then I poke my head into this list to see if there is any more progress on the GCC Plugin branch issue. In particular I don't want to give up on this feature as it will be enormously useful for my open source project EDoc++.
In the past, we have had a lot of discussion about the feature, but the end result has been that RMS is opposed to it so nothing will be done about it because he has the power. Can anyone suggest where to go from here? Preferably, I wish we could convince RMS that this is a good move forward. Barring that the only solution I can think of is to create a "fork" of GCC. Where for every GCC release, I provide a patched release with plugin support. The issue then would be getting the various distros to use the plugin variant rather than the "official" one (Which could be quite difficult). The following wiki page (not sure who created it) is a decent summary of the past discussion on this issue: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_Plugins Thanks, Brendon.
