Re: Status of 3.3.5 release and 3.3 branch

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>]

Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> | Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu> writes:
> |
> | > | gcc 3.3.3 is there, it's just not in the right place.  It's in
> | > |     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/releases/gcc-3.3.3
> | > | whereas all the other releases are in, e.g.,
> | >
> | > That is not true. ftp.gnu.org/pub/gcc is just unstructured.
> |
> | I think it's structured.
> 
> 
> Point your browser to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gcc/.  You'll see that it is
> unclear whether the releases should go only in directories gcc-x.y.z
> or in gcc-x.y.z.tar.gz, or both or only one of them.

I agree that the absence of symlinks for the complete gcc-3.4 releases
is somewhat confusing.  For earlier releases, we consistently have the
release directory holding various subsets of the release, and the
.tar.gz file holding the complete release.  Providing the .tar.gz file
for the complete release is consistent with other GNU releases on
ftp.gnu.org.  Providing the subdirectory with subsets of release is
consistent with past gcc release practice.

Moreover, looking at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/, it is straightforward
to download any particular release--except 3.3.3.

I'm not going to claim the ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc is perfect.  I agree
that we should remove the earlier symlinks for the full releases, or
add them for the gcc 3.4 series.  But I am going to continue to claim
that gcc 3.3.3 is in the wrong place.

Ian