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Re: gcc-ss-20000530 is now available
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Subject: Re: gcc-ss-20000530 is now available
- From: Tim Josling <tej at melbpc dot org dot au>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 10:10:38 +1000
- Organization: Melbourne PC User Group
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021032500.52861-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Nor all of us CAN use CVS.
- bandwidth. Even people in the US with pretty good links have
had problems. Let alone me 10,000 miles and 25 hops away.
- latency over sattelite links
- firewall problems
If you are going to remove the weekly snapshots facility, there
is a better way to do it than just letting it break.
Such as
- announce what you are planning to do and seek feedback
- look at alternatives for those for whom it is a show stopper
Now I and many other people have to download the whole 10+mb
again. This will probably take several attempts.
Tim Josling
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Markus Kossmann wrote:
> > Did you mean that the missing stuff of the 20000508 snapshot ( that
> > includes the 20000501-20000508 diff ) will not be provided ?
>
> As far as I understand, yes.
>
> In general, if you're interested in testing/contributing to
> GCC, we strongly recommend to use CVS instead of snapshots.
>
> Gerald
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> Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/