4.1 status?

[Richard Guenther]

On 9/9/06, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Kenny Simpson wrote:
> > What is the status of the 4.1 branch?  Any word on 4.1.2?
>
> My current plan is to do a 4.1.2 along with 4.2.0.  My concern has been
> that with 4.2.0 moving slowly, trying to organize another release might
> just distract the developer community.
>
> However, I realize that's a pretty wide gap between 4.1.1 and 4.1.2.  We
> could also do 4.1.2 sooner, and then do 4.1.3 along with 4.2.0.  (I want
> to do a 4.1.x release along with 4.2.0 so as to avoid the problems we
> have in past with quality "going backwards" between releases from
> different branches.)
>
> I'm sure that, a priori, people would prefer a 4.1.2 release, but it
> does take effort.  On the other hand, many 4.1 bugs are also in 4.2.
>
> Any thoughts?

With my vendor hat on I'd prefer a 4.1.2 release sooner than I expect
4.2.0 - which would make the time we branch for 4.2.0 a good candidate.
>From a pure GCC development side I do not care very much about
4.1.2 (or even 4.0.4 which I don't expect at all).

I guess a release of 4.1.2 together with branching for 4.2.0 might encourage
to backport regression fixes from 4.2 to 4.1, as with stage1 starting, 4.1.2
will get even less attention than 4.2.0.

Richard.