gcc development schedule [Re: sharing libcpp between GDB and GCC]

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Tom Lord wrote:

> lower cost for all participants?  Certainly put GCC in the position
> of being better able to make near-instant "emergency releases" to correct
> defects that escape up-front testing?  Certainly avoid snafus like

We can make such releases.  The 3.0 branch is or should be in a state of
perpetual release-readiness, and that's where an emergency release would
come from.  (If necessary, a new branch could be created off 3.0.4 for a
3.0.4.1 release, as was done with the stillborn 2.95.2.1 release.)

In the days when RMS was GCC maintainer, new releases did happen a day of
previous ones (2.2.1); but it's been decided not to do so now "except
perhaps to fix packaging problems"
<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-06/msg00938.html>.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk