Status of 3.3.5 release and 3.3 branch

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu> writes:
|
| > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
| >
| > | Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu> writes:
| > |
| > | > | gcc 3.3.3 is there, it's just not in the right place.  It's in
| > | > |     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/releases/gcc-3.3.3
| > | > | whereas all the other releases are in, e.g.,
| > | >
| > | > That is not true. ftp.gnu.org/pub/gcc is just unstructured.
| > |
| > | I think it's structured.
| >
| >
| > Point your browser to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gcc/.  You'll see that it is
| > unclear whether the releases should go only in directories gcc-x.y.z
| > or in gcc-x.y.z.tar.gz, or both or only one of them.
|
| I agree that the absence of symlinks for the complete gcc-3.4 releases
| is somewhat confusing.  For earlier releases, we consistently have the

I don't believe the current procedure for uploading on ftp.gnu.org
has provision for making links.  One can create a file/directory.
That is all about it.  I don't think you can even remove a file/directory.

| release directory holding various subsets of the release, and the
| .tar.gz file holding the complete release.  Providing the .tar.gz file
| for the complete release is consistent with other GNU releases on
| ftp.gnu.org.  Providing the subdirectory with subsets of release is
| consistent with past gcc release practice.
|
| Moreover, looking at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/, it is straightforward
| to download any particular release--except 3.3.3.
|
| I'm not going to claim the ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc is perfect.  I agree
| that we should remove the earlier symlinks for the full releases, or
| add them for the gcc 3.4 series.  But I am going to continue to claim
| that gcc 3.3.3 is in the wrong place.
|
| Ian
|

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