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Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
Cc: Scott Robert Ladd <scott dot ladd at coyotegulch dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:12:58 -0700
Subject: Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing
References: <42A8A9B9.3080601@coyotegulch.com> <Pine.BSF.4.62.0506092321350.81937@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

On Jun 12, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

Note, though, that this is only one part of the equation.  A most
significant amount of work also goes into analysing and potentially
fixing packages which do not compile any longer and submit fixes
upstream.

:-( Sometimes we wish that gcc had a 5 year warn cycle, followed by a 5 year, -fpretty-please cycle, just so that we don't loose the testing that building tons of software brings to the table.

References:
- A Suggestion for Release Testing
  - From: Scott Robert Ladd
- Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing
  - From: Gerald Pfeifer

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