Heads up: today's GCC snapshot

[Ranjit Mathew]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Personally, I expect sufficiently many changes between 3.3 and 3.3.1
> (given how wide-spread usage 3.3 will receive, now that it's an official
> release) that running snapshots off the branch still is a good idea.

Hmmm...depends on how one interprets the goal of providing
snapshots (vide http://gcc.gnu.org/snapshots.html):

"These snapshots are intended to give everyone access to
work in progress."

*Most* of the real "work in progress" seems to be on the
3.4 branch/mainline rather than on the 3.3 branch.


> I have recently started to familiarize myself with the gcc_release script
> and have already made several changes.  My mid-term plan is the following:
> 
>  o Provide snapshots only as .bz2 (not as .bz2 and .gz); this reduces the
>  load on gcc.gnu.org and mirror sites.
> 
>  o Make the branch/mainline version (3.3., 3.4,...) part of the name of
>  snapshot directories and files.
> 
>  o Finally, create snapshots both for the 3.3 branch and mainline.

This scheme would be *ideal* for people like me! Many thanks
in advance for this. (I hope you don't face problems with
people who are "anal" ;-) about bzip2 v/s gzip.)


>>What can I do? When will the snapshots move to 3.4?
> 
> 
> As far as I can tell (but others may disagree and overrule this) after
> 3.3.1, at the latest.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So it might very well happen *before* 3.3.1, right?


> Well, yes. Just there really isn't such a formal roadmap. Providing
> snapshots of mainline and the active release branch should address
> most of your issues, though, I'd hope?

*All issues* in fact! :-)

Ranjit.

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