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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, "bonzini\ at gnu dot org" <bonzini at gnu dot org>, "dave dot korn dot cygwin\ at googlemail dot com" <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>, "dberlin\ at dberlin dot org" <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, "dje dot gcc\ at gmail dot com" <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, "gcc\ at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "law\ at redhat dot com" <law at redhat dot com>, "mark\ at codesourcery dot com" <mark at codesourcery dot com>, "rguenther\ at suse dot de" <rguenther at suse dot de>, "stevenb dot gcc\ at gmail dot com" <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:12:10 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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NightStrike <nightstrike@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
>> GCC uses are the ones developed in the egcs days. ÂRemember the old
>> days when the location of the development tree and the snapshots was
>> a secret, and people were threatened with banning if they let it out?
>
> Are you serious? Why would it be handled that way?
It was because some developers were afraid that people would confuse
development snapshots with official releases. Also, releases were made
more often back then.
I think the GNU binutils was the first GNU project to break that rule,
when Ken Raeburn started making weekly snapshots of the development tree
around 1994 or so. He was following the lead of Linus and the kernel.
Ian