Re: [patch] releases.html

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>]

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> On Feb 13, 2001, Colin Howell <chowell@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > + <tr><td>1.16</td><td>December 19, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.15.3 (g++)</td><td>December 18, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.15</td><td>November 28, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.14</td><td>November 6, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.13</td><td>October 12, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.12</td><td>October 3, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.11</td><td>September 5, 1987 (announced late)</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.10</td><td>August 22, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.9</td><td>August 18, 1987 (never announced)</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.8</td><td>August 10, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.7</td><td>July 21, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.6</td><td>July 2, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.5</td><td>June 18, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.4</td><td>June 13, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.3</td><td>June 10, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.2</td><td>June 1, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.1</td><td>May 24, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>1.0</td><td>May 23, 1987</td></tr>
> > + <tr><td>0.9 (first beta release)</td><td>March 22, 1987</td></tr>
> 
> Wow!  How's that for ``release early, release often''?  No surprise
> people complain the GCC release cycle is too long these days...  :-)
> 

Hey, i'll standardize the optimizer passes interface, add libltdl, and
make it so the backend can dynamically load the passes from shared
libs, if you'll handle the Makefile portion. 

What's that noise? It sounded like someone running away screaming?

:)


Is there any disagreement that about the only thing we could do to
make the current Makefile based stuff worse, would be to add libtool? 
--Dan