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Re: GCC 3.1 and branches (was: RFA: Deprecate C++ options)
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 and branches (was: RFA: Deprecate C++ options)
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:16:11 -0700
- cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
--On Friday, September 14, 2001 02:34:34 PM +0200 Gerald Pfeifer
<pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> That's why there are 4 months on the schedule between the mergepoint
>> and the branch, and two months on the schedule between the branch
>> and the release. There will be time to fix the problems [...]
>
> Yes, of course. What I meant was that if we have lots of commits from
> several branches within an extremely short period (a few days before the
> deadline), it will be extremely hard to analyse regressions of the kind I
> mentioned, because it won't be easy to see which of the multiple mergers
> might be responsible.
True. TO that end, it would be nice if people would not push everything
up against the deadline. But, realistically, they will -- heck, I
may do it myself with the new parser! -- so I bet there will be some
chaos for a week or two around that point. I think we'll be able to
sort it out.
Thanks,
--
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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