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Re: gcc-ss-20000530 is now available
- To: Tim Josling <tej at melbpc dot org dot au>
- Subject: Re: gcc-ss-20000530 is now available
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 08:55:40 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Tim Josling wrote:
> Nor all of us CAN use CVS.
>
> - bandwidth. Even people in the US with pretty good links have
> had problems. Let alone me 10,000 miles and 25 hops away.
I'm also 10,000 miles and 18 hops away, and using CVS over an
(single-channel) ISDN line is no problem at all. The only real
problem I can see with CVS are fascist corporate firewalls.
> If you are going to remove the weekly snapshots facility, there
> is a better way to do it than just letting it break.
I am not aware of any such plans, and I certainly did not mean to
indicate that:
>> In general, if you're interested in testing/contributing to
>> GCC, we strongly recommend to use CVS instead of snapshots.
However, it might be good idea to find some volunteer(s) that are
interesting in helping Jeff with those snapshots and do some quality
control etc!
Gerald
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