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Re: Stable release?
- To: green at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Stable release?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at pasanda dot cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: 16 Feb 2000 18:20:17 -0000
- CC: mdw at cs dot berkeley dot edu, bryce at albatross dot co dot nz, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:59:29 -0800
> From: Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>
>
> Andrew wrote:
> > Yes, but then we'd have to tag the egcs source tree and support that
> > version with continuing bug fixes. Do we really want to do that?
>
> Maybe not. If the next snapshot appears reasonable, maybe we can just
> save it away on our web site. We don't have to make any claims beyond
> the normal snapshot ones, but people can provide "it works for me"
> type anecdotal evidence.
I think you're looking at this way too optimistically!
We would inevitably start having to collect patches to any "blessed"
version of gcc, *and* we'd have to test against it when updating
libgcj. And, as Tom pointed out, the gcc team (which from time to
time includes me) wouldn't like to have an another alternative
distribution channel of gcc "versions".
Andrew,