Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6

[Ilija Kocho <ilijak@siva.com.mk>]

Hi Alex

On 26.01.2012 14:35, Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
> Hi Ilija
>
> On 2012-01-25 20:59, Ilija Kocho wrote:
>> Hi Alex
>>
>> I wish to thank eCosCentric for supporting eCos GCC 4.6 release. It
>> will both assure quality of this release and strengthen the image of
>> eCos community toolchain.
> NP - it is a community effort after all :-)
>
>
>> In order to best utilize 2 lab. weeks of testing we should have well
>> prepared binaries. In my view, it would be the best to carry out the
>> eCosCentric lab. test as final release verification step after some
>> field testing. In a course of field testing we shall also prepare eCos
>> itself, (eliminate warnings, etc.).
> We have the opposite view - our test farm finds errors which normal user
> and field testing does not catch.  I think the earlier you get the
> toolchain into the test farm the better because you will at least
> minimise the user and field regression testing needed when you fix
> issues thrown up by the farm.
>
> We are happy to throw as many toolchain candidates as needed into the
> test farm, with the only restriction being the bandwidth each board runs
> the tests, so don't feel you have to hold back and use the farm for
> final verification. Our test farm has thrown up far more eCos bugs and
> toolchain issues than the rest of the community has to date.

Thank you for clarification. This gives a completely new perspective. 
We'll take care "as many" to be some reasonable figure.

Cheers

Ilija