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Re: Fwd: gcc-4.2-20090304 is now available
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >
> >> Do we really need a new snapshot when only DATESTAMP is updated? I
> >> think it is a waste
> >> of resources.
>
> It is.
>
> > When 4.4 has branched I plan to close 4.2 branch.
>
> Maybe we can remove DATESTAMP and updating it now that
> gcc_update understands to extract the SVN revision number?
I think DATESTAMP serves a useful purpose in providing immediate
identification of what trunk or release branch version given sources are
based on, when those sources may be another branch last merged from trunk
or a release branch a while back or imported into another version control
system, so that a revision number does not give this information.
Anyway, removing DATESTAMP would change the issue to new snapshots with no
changes rather than with just DATESTAMP changes.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com