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Re: Heads up: today's GCC snapshot
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> The latest (20030519) snapshot shows a 3.3.1 prerelease version and not
> 3.4 prerelease as I had expected.
Personally, I expect sufficiently many changes between 3.3 and 3.3.1
(given how wide-spread usage 3.3 will receive, now that it's an official
release) that running snapshots off the branch still is a good idea.
However, I also believe (and have received feedback in that direction)
that having snapshots off the release branch _and_ mainline is desirable.
I have recently started to familiarize myself with the gcc_release script
and have already made several changes. My mid-term plan is the following:
o Provide snapshots only as .bz2 (not as .bz2 and .gz); this reduces the
load on gcc.gnu.org and mirror sites.
o Make the branch/mainline version (3.3., 3.4,...) part of the name of
snapshot directories and files.
o Finally, create snapshots both for the 3.3 branch and mainline.
> What can I do? When will the snapshots move to 3.4?
As far as I can tell (but others may disagree and overrule this) after
3.3.1, at the latest.
> What's the point of maintaining snapshots of the 3.3 branch now?
Helping maintain/increase the qualitfy of the 3.3 branch, so that 3.3.1
really will be even more solid than 3.3.
> BTW, this page:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/snapshots.html
>
> should be updated with the status of the snapshots w.r.t. to the various
> GCC branches at a given time and "roadmap" for the snapshots vis-a-vis
> these branches.
Well, yes. Just there really isn't such a formal roadmap. Providing
snapshots of mainline and the active release branch should address
most of your issues, though, I'd hope?
Gerald
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