Inconsistance in snapshots repository
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Tue Apr 14 23:16:00 GMT 1998
In message < Pine.GSO.3.96.980415001559.3746A-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
>you write:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > 1997-09-10/ 1997-12-15/ LATEST-IS-1998-04-06 <----
> > 1997-09-17/ 1997-12-25/ LATEST-IS-1998-04011 <----
>
> On a related note, I realized that in the CVS repository gcc/version.c
> still has "egcs-2.91.23 980404".
I'll look into it, probably a consequence of running the snapshot
script a few dozen times and tweaking it in the process.
> On another related note: What happended to the idea of bumping the date
> more regularily, e.g., daily?
No time. Like most things a contribution of code would greatly
speed up the process.
> And on a final related note, I suggest to use 19980404 instead of 980404,
> unless egcs won't be Y2000-compliant! <g>
Probably a good idea, even those it's just a version string and
means nothing to the compiler itself.
jeff
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