From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11428 invoked by alias); 2 Jul 2003 22:13:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-announce-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-announce-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 6491 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2003 21:32:24 -0000 Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:13:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer Reply-To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org To: gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Changes concerning GCC snapshots (and releases) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 For some time now, I have been working to update how our weekly snapshots (as we distribute them from ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots and many mirror sites) are run, and have already made the following changes: o Weekly snapshots are only available in .bz2 format, which allows for noticeably smaller archives. o We abandoned and removed the gcc_latest_snapshot CVS tag. o Diff files now reside in a subdirectory "diffs/" of the respective snapshot directories. The last item also applies to future releases of GCC, which we will continue to ship in both .gz and .bz2 formats. In addition, I am working on the following further changes: o The names of the snapshot directories shall include the name of the relevant branch in GCC's CVS repository or the string "mainline" in addition to the date. For example, while the last snapshot was labelled gcc_ss_20030630, the next one probably will be labelled gcc-ss-3_3-20030707. o Later, this will also apply to individual archive files. o And, finally, we want to provide snapshots both off mainline and the currently active release branch (currently, the 3.3 branch). If you have any questions, comments, or complaints concerning these changes, please do not hesitate to let us know. Gerald -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) gerald@pfeifer.com http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/