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Re: Wasted effort?
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Subject: Re: Wasted effort?
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:11:21 +0100 (CET)
- cc: Eric Lemings <eric dot b dot lemings at lmco dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Joe Buck wrote:
>> I was just wondering what's the point in releasing gcc-2.95.3 when the
>> GCC home page says that gcc-3.0 will be released at the end of this
>> quarter?
> No, the GCC home page says "which we hope to release by the end of Q1
> 2001". And it appears that this date will not be met.
Right. So I went ahead and installed the following patch. Hopefully this
is a realistic goal (though I did keep the "we hope to")!
Gerald
Index: index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.247
diff -u -3 -p -r1.247 index.html
--- index.html 2001/02/15 10:51:50 1.247
+++ index.html 2001/03/07 00:10:16
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ maintain and improve quality.
and we are currently working on GCC 2.95.3, a maintainance update.
<a href="gcc-2.96.html">GCC 2.96</A> and 2.97 are development snapshots
leading towards <a href="gcc-3.0/criteria.html">GCC 3.0</A> which we
-hope to release by the end of Q1 2001.
+hope to release in the first half of 2001.
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