GCC 3.3 Prerelease

Gerald Pfeifer pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Fri May 9 11:59:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, 8 May 2003, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> I just noticed because it broke a tester of mine and the FreeBSD Ports
>> Collection also needed changes, as both relied on the .bz2s.
> Sorry about that; I'll generate them in future.

Thanks!

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Phil Edwards wrote:
>> If it's really inconvenient for you to upload both .gz and .bz2,
> then perhaps he shouldn't have to.
>
> Given:  - bz2 files are smaller, therefore faster to upload,
>         - more people are depending on the bz2s,
>         - duplicating formats is trivial
>
> Why not have a script on ftp.gnu.org that a RM can trigger after
> uploading the bz2 files which creates gz equivalents?

This is exactly what I had written for Mark, alas on gcc.gnu.org!

Mark, did you use my script to generate the .bz2 files for the second
prerelease? Respectively, would you like me to adjust it to convert from
.bz2 to .gz?

If that helps reduce your load (or the one of your uplink), I'll happily
do whatever you prefer. :-)

Gerald
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