A request for GCC 3.5 snapshots

Richard Guenther rguenth@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Thu Feb 19 18:08:00 GMT 2004


Joe Buck wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:31:35AM -0500, Kelley Cook wrote:
> 
>>Due to a restrictive security policy, I am unable to access the CVS tree 
>>from my employer's network.
> 
> 
> For anyone in this situation:
> 
> Your company's security team may be reluctant to open port 2401
> everywhere, but lots of us have succeeded in getting an opening made only
> for a selected set of destinations, like gcc.gnu.org or savannah.  If your
> company uses gcc at all, it should not be difficult to make a business
> case for this: you need to test whether bugs that affect you are properly
> fixed in upcoming releases.
> 
> We might be able to do more snapshots, but getting more people able to use
> CVS would be preferable.
> 

Note that you can also use anonymous cvs with ssh to subversion, as 
stated on http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html - opening port 22 is usually even 
less a problem (if it's not open anyway).

Richard.



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