GCC 3.1 and branches (was: RFA: Deprecate C++ options)

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Friday, September 14, 2001 02:34:34 PM +0200 Gerald Pfeifer 
<pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> That's why there are 4 months on the schedule between the mergepoint
>> and the branch, and two months on the schedule between the branch
>> and the release.  There will be time to fix the problems [...]
>
> Yes, of course.  What I meant was that if we have lots of commits from
> several branches within an extremely short period (a few days before the
> deadline), it will be extremely hard to analyse regressions of the kind I
> mentioned, because it won't be easy to see which of the multiple mergers
> might be responsible.

True.  TO that end, it would be nice if people would not push everything
up against the deadline.  But, realistically, they will -- heck, I
may do it myself with the new parser! -- so I bet there will be some
chaos for a week or two around that point.  I think we'll be able to
sort it out.

Thanks,

-- 
Mark Mitchell                mark@codesourcery.com
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