removing old snapshot CVS tags? (was: gcc_latest_snapshot CVS tag)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> You don't think that, when someone does a study on "The Cultural and
> Technical Development of the EGCS Project, 1997-1999" (perhaps as part of
> a more general historical study of free software development), they might
> want to look at the changing perspectives on the uses of snapshots versus
> CVS and the influences particular brokennesses in the tree - as once
> reflected in complaints that a snapshot being broken made the tree
> effectively broken for a week for many users, and later reflected in
> complaints when CVS is broken for a few hours - have had on the
> development process?

No.

And if so, they will use the mailing list archives and hardly use CVS
tags (not the least because machines operational in a few years will
not be able to bootstrap such old versions of EGCS and GCC).

Frankly, I think this is a strawman argument, and one for which we can
hardly afford 1GB out of 3GB of free disk in ~ftp/pub/gcc.

Gerald
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