[Buildroot] RFC: toolchain wrapper for external toolchains

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Sun, 08 May 2011 22:16:41 +0200
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org> wrote:

>  Thomas> Moreover, it has been committed only two days after the
>  Thomas> proposal, a duration which is very short for the other
>  Thomas> contributors to take the time to test the patches and give
>  Thomas> their opinion. This is also very short compared to the amount
>  Thomas> of time many other contributions have been waiting for being
>  Thomas> merged. For example, have a look at the patch set I
>  Thomas> contributed on April, 2nd
>  Thomas> (http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-April/042309.html),
>  Thomas> which is also something that has been discussed during the
>  Thomas> FOSDEM meeting.
> 
> Yes. The config option rename is naturally massively intrusive, so I
> didn't want to rush to apply it (E.G. see the recent discussion about
> differing between what the toolchain has for ext toolchains and what
> we want to enable - E.G. ipv6 support)

Yes, I indeed understand that this patch set is intrusive :-)

>  Thomas> In the future, would it be possible to leave more time
>  Thomas> between post and commit, for such major infrastructure
>  Thomas> changes ?
> 
> Sure.

Thanks a lot. I strongly appreciate that it is possible to have this
kind of open discussion on the development process without entering any
sort of aggression or fight.

Regards,

Thomas
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