Re: igc: trying to chase a crash

[Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> I get the same feeling. Something is a bit odd.
>>
>> I don't find this too odd, I have my own ideas about the reasons for
>> this difference.
>
> Care to share your thoughts?

Sure if it's of interest: my idea of few things that helped a lot native
comp in gaining traction at time:

- publishing simple blog posts summarizing and explaining the progresses
  of the branch [1]

- native-comp being a feature branch, this clarified that the goal was
  merging to master (IOW something which was probably likely to happen)
  and that the branch was trackable by users.  That's why I suggested
  more than once this solution in the past.

- publishing some positive performance numbers in order to explain/prove
  the soundness of the approach.

That said, users were very interested and gave a lot of good feedbacks
and bug reports (my impression more than for igc), but the number of
developers involved I'm pretty sure was not higher than what igc got
already.

>>
>>> But maybe that's even a good thing,
>>
>> I respectfully disagree.
>>
>>   Andrea
>
> Just trying to always look at the bright side of life :-).

:)

[1] <https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html>