Direct CVS Access to egcs sources

[Raja R Harinath]

Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:
> >   > how you're going to bump snapshot number/date/location?
> >   > Just randomly from time to time?
> > Folks have suggested a nightly cron job to bump it.  That's one possibility
> 
> 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.

Jeff Law mentioned that every snapshot is tagged something like
egcs_ss_YYYYMMDD.  If so, the testers could be asked to use a specific
tag when they do the cvs update.

- Hari
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