gcc_latest_snapshot CVS tag (was: gcc-ss-20030526 is now available)

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Kelley Cook wrote:

> A "CVS -d snapshot_date" will accomplish the same thing, if anybody had 
> a reason to get a specific snapshot.

It will not; snapshots are not generated from CVS as of a fixed time of
day.

The principle of having those tags (absent generating snapshots from CVS
checked out at a fixed time) is that when we have published something (in
this case, a particular set of files as a snapshot with a given name) we
should always be able to reproduce what we have published with that name
at that time.  For future snapshots we could consider checking out with a
given date and time specified (and including the date, time and branch in
the snapshot announcement message), if this will work properly on a
branch, to save on tags for future snapshots.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk