Archive for February, 2006

GPLv3, Linux, and GCC

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

I’ve been asked a bunch of times about the GPLv3, and in particular, what the patent provisions mean for GCC, and what the DRM provisions mean.

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GCC patch tracker rewritten

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

For the curious as to why the links to the GCC patch tracker code don’t work anymore, it’s because I rewrote the application in Ruby on Rails. Why?

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Subversion 1.4 and beyond

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

A bunch of GCC folks have asked me whether the next version of Subversion will be any faster for commits, updates, and diff than the current one.

The answer is a resounding yes.

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