Re: Info-files missing in gcc 3.2.2

[Christian Cornelssen <ccorn at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> 4.1 is sufficient for the 3.2 branch.  It's 3.3 and mainline that need
> 4.2.

Good, thanks for the info.

> You should never create a new tarball with the same name - this will just
> create problems for people using diffs.

In this case, existing files would not change, just new ones would get
added. "cvs rdiff" would not be affected. If you mean diffs between
actual release tar contents, then this would matter for diff users
without makeinfo.

Currently, both complete tar users and diff users would not get info
files other than by makeinfo, thus updating the tarball would help at
least the tar users. For the rest, I think that confusion about
additional release suffixes would be greater than the casual
inconvenience of having to install makeinfo. Don't you think that
typical users will download gcc-3.2.2.tar.*z*, regardless of whether
versions with additional suffixes exist?

Moreover, makeinfo comes as part of the texinfo package which also
contains the info reader, so people with the reader also have
makeinfo. The only info users without makeinfo are then emacs users,
experienced enough to invoke the info-reader mode, which is, ahem,
described in an emacs info file...

I think we should not take that too seriously. :-)

Regards,

Christian Cornelssen