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Re: GCC Release Delay
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Subject: Re: GCC Release Delay
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:10:47 -0700
- cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
> Will this be going to gcc-announce (in addition to anywhere else) so that
Yes.
> Where critical bugs are proven to show up in the actual release, can we do
> patchlevel releases with the speed they had in RMS's day? (2.2.1 came out
> one day after 2.2.)
It depends. On a lot of things. For one thing, on what constitutes
a "critical bug". Every single GCC release has been "broken" according
to some people. I can't imagine doing another release in one day,
except perhaps to fix packaging problems.
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