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Re: Draft: Changes concerning GCC snapshots (and releases)
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>|> To me, "head" refers to the active tip of whatever branch the user is
>|> thinking about, e.g., "head of mainline," "head of 3.3," etc.
> For cvs, HEAD designates the most recent revision in the repository,
> ie. the latest revision on the main trunk.
Right, but given that Phil thought otherwise...
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> 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.
...and also given Gabriel's response, I think I'll suggest to use
"mainline". (Thanks also for the other comments.)
Please find below an updated version which also contains a note on the
CVS tag for snapshots. I'd like to send this draft later today...
Gerald
-------- 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 noticeably smaller archives.
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
the string "mainline".
That is, while the last snapshot was labelled gcc_ss_20030630, the
next one probably will be labelled gcc-ss-3_3-20030707.
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.
Gerald
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