Direct CVS Access to egcs sources

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

 Gerald> On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
 >> How about we continue to bump the version # for snapshots, but change
 >> the "date" string via a nightly cron job?

 Gerald> Yes, please do that.

 Gerald> If it does not prove sufficient, we can always change to an
 Gerald> even finer grained version labeling later. The daily change
 Gerald> defintely will be useful.

Why isn't the usual `ident' mechanism appropriate, given you can't
guarantee the integrity of a given set of sources, even WRT a given
date?  Do the potentially-annoying problems with patches swing it or
something else?