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Re: GCC 4.1 snapshots
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> > My recommendation in my very unoffical role as "carer of the snapshots"
> > is to stop doing those weekly snapshots for the 4.1 branch, and I will
> > be happy to roll a new snapshot upon request in case someone (like a
> > GNU/Linux or BSD distribution would like to see one for their packages)
> > in that case.
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:49:27PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> I'd rather close the 4.2 branch than the 4.1 one. Unfortunately the FSF
> has put us in a situation where we can't do any more 4.1 releases. Can we
> slow down the 4.1 snapshot interval to 4 weeks instead?
There haven't been any changes since April 8, so in the meantime about six
identical snapshots went out. A 4-week interval still would have produced
a wasted snapshot.
A third alternative is to issue a snapshot (at whatever time interval
is chosen) iff there's been a checkin on the branch.