GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2008-03-06)

[Richard Guenther]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:30:46PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>  > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Joe Buck wrote:
>  >
>  > > I suggest just letting 4.3.0 out into the world (finish the release
>  > > process), and mention the caveat about the cld issue in the announcement.
>  > > We would then have time to decide whether to do a quick 4.3.0.1, or not.
>  >
>  > It certainly does need finishing (e.g. the Bugzilla parts of
>  > releasing.html).  I think we can just do an early 4.3.1 with whatever
>  > other fixes are ready on the branch rather than making a special 4.3.0.1;
>  > it's not as if 4.3.0 (or any .0 release) is going to be a widely deployed
>  > stable release with people wanting one fix and just that one fix.
>
>  Sounds good to me; certainly as soon as 4.3.0 gets out and gets wider
>  testing, people will find things.  In the past we only used the 4th digit
>  for paper-bag issues (like failure to bootstrap on a major platform or
>  broken release tarballs).

Heh, we even did a quick 3.2 release after fixing ABI issues in 3.1.

Richard.