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Re: GCC Status (2004-08-09)
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:43:24 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC Status (2004-08-09)
- References: <10408112140.AA03339@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:40, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Raising the bar for cleanups is perfectly appropriate for the later
> stages of a release; almost every substantial cleanup in GCC has
> introduced a new set of bugs.
>
> Indeed.
>
> My point is that I don't feel enough time has elapsed since major changes
> have ended (we're not even really there *yet* and August is a month when lots
> of people are away) to declare a few weeks from now as "the later stages of a
> release".
>
> My suggestion was to pick a point 2-3 weeks from now and declare the start of
> a new stage aimed at *both* fixing bugs and doing cleanups and more
> integration of what's been done before. Then after a few weeks of that (say,
> near the end of September), we declare a full Stage 3.
I'm really inclined to agree with this as well. Things are progressing
well, but I don't think we have a good handle on how lots of things are
going and we want 3.5 to be better integrated and tested since huge
swathes of internals have changed.
-eric
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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>