Re: Mainline snapshots

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> At <ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/mainline-2003-07-02/> and soon our
> mirror sites, you will find the first mainline snapshot of GCC for a long
> time.  This snapshot is tagged as gcc-ss-mainline-20030702 in CVS.

Thank you very much for this!

It's ideal for people with slow and unreliable connections
like me to keep up with GCC development.


> If all goes well, I plan to continue releasing snapshots off the 3.3
> branch on Mondays and to release snapshots off mainline on Wednesdays.

Is there a particular reason for this? Or is it purely
because you happen to have created the first mainline snapshot
on a Wednesday? :-)

Wouldn't it be simpler and less cluttering to continue
to have the current "Monday-dated" folders and
"gcc-3_3-xxx" and "gcc-mainline-xxx" snapshot archives
within them?

Or would it incur too much overhead at one go on the
server rolling out these snapshots?

My 2p.

Ranjit.

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