The contrib directory...

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.GSO.4.02.9808061427110.15230-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
>you write:
  > ...on the 1.1 branch (and thus in the snapshots) is out of sync with
  > the one on the mainline branch.
  > 
  > I believe that those changes/additions are worthwhile for 1.1 as well
  > (and clearly without any risk).
  > 
No, they're not out of sync -- if folks only update the mainline, then the
branch will not change.

This is how concurrent development works.

I don't think there's anything critical in contrib that needs to be changed
for egcs-1.1.

jeff