Direct CVS Access to egcs sources

[Joe Buck]

I wrote:
>   > If you really want to be able to tell what people are running based
>   > just on the version number, it seems that the version should be updated
>   > each time a non-documentation file is checked in.  Otherwise figuring
>   > out test results is going to get really confusing.



> That's another option.  CVS has this kind of capability.

Then please do it.

> It might be overkill, then again it might not.  That's why I'm asking
> for opinions :-)

I think that it will have a huge advantage.  Let's say two people send in
test reports for the same platform, with the same version, and one has an
additional failure.  With cron-generated timestamps, you'll have to search
through a whole day's changes to figure out if some patch caused the
failure.  With an update-on-every-checkin version, you know they are
running identical code and you can start looking for subtle system
differences.

You could lessen the problem by doing a new version string every hour,
say, but then people may have identical software that differs only in
a version number.