Re: GCC Release Status (2003-08-22)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2003, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>> GCC 3.4 is in Stage 2.  GCC 3.4 will enter Stage 3 (bugfixes only) on
>>> October 15th.
>> Following our development plan, wouldn't this be September 4th
>> (i.e., two month after the end of stage 1)?
> But, given the delay in getting GCC 3.3.2 out and the lack of warning, I
> thought we should wait a bit so that people feel they have a chance to
> add any last new features.

Yeah, that makes sense.  I was just noticing the later date when I was
going to update the web page with our schedules. ;-)

I hope that this time we'll be able to release relatively quickly after
the creation of the release branch (considering how much time you alone
must have spent in testing and applying patches to both mainline and the
3.3-branch before the release of GCC 3.3), which would lead to a projected
release date in late December or early January.  Or is that too ambitious?

> I don't mind moving up the date if everyone is comfortable with that.

Perhaps October 4th, to have (no more than) three months in stage 2 after
three months in stage 1?

(Given that GCC 3.4 will be a "we break nearly all of your (non-ISO) C++
programs" release, we may want to push it out the door relatively quickly
while keeping the 3.3-branch active a bit longer than usual to give users
a bit more time fixing their programs.  Just a thought, thoug...)

Gerald