Re: Draft: Changes concerning GCC snapshots (and releases)

[Gabriel Paubert <paubert at iram dot es>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:59:52PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> This is a draft of a message for gcc-announce that I'd like to send to
> announce changes caused by my ongoing work on the snapshot machinery.
> 
> Comments, both concerning the plan per se and this concrete message are
> highly welcome!
> 
> Do you prefer "main", "mainline" or "head" to refer to mainline/CVS head
> in the names of snapshot directories?

Since we are speaking of a tree, I personally prefer trunk by opposition 
to branches. My second choice would be mainline, I find head confusing
since every branch has its own head.

Just my 2 cents, and I'm not a native English speaker. 

> 
> -------- cut draft ---------
> I have been working to update how our weekly snapshots (as we distribute
> them from ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots and many mirror sites) are
> run for some time now and have already made the following changes:
> 
>  o Weekly snapshots are only available in .bz2 format, which allows
>    for sensible smaller archives.
         ^^^^^^^^
You'll need an adverb there. Personnaly I'd rather say noticeably but
that may be a personal bias against sensible and derived words
("sensible" in French usually translates into "sensitive" in English).

> 
>  o We abandoned and removed the gcc_latest_snapshot CVS tag.
> 
>  o Diff files now reside in a subdirectory "diffs/" of the respective
>    snapshot directory.
> 
> The last item also applies to future releases of GCC, which we will
> continue to ship in both .gz and .bz2 formats.
> 
> In addition, I am working on the following further changes:
> 
>  o The names of the snapshot directories shall include the name of the
>    relevant branch in GCC's CVS repository in addition to the date, or
>    "head" in the case of current mainline.

I still prefer trunk, mainline, or nothing at all.

> 
>  o Later, this will also apply to individual archive files.
> 
>  o And, finally, we want to provide snapshots both off mainline and the
>    currently active release branch (currently, the 3.3 branch).
> 
> If you have any questions, comments, or complaints concerning these
> changes, please do not hesitate to let us know.

	Regards,
	Gabriel