From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
Cc: jbuck@synopsys.com, kriol@fnal.gov, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Direct CVS Access to egcs sources 
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 15:38:00 -0000
Message-id: <12564.886978862@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <m0y1eB7-0004ecC@ocean.lucon.org>
X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00323.html

  In message < m0y1eB7-0004ecC@ocean.lucon.org >you write:
  > > How about we continue to bump the version # for snapshots, but change
  > > the "date" string via a nightly cron job?
  > > 
  > > I just don't see the need at this point to bump the version # at each
  > > checkin -- that (of course) can change if we have a difficult time
  > > interpreting test results.
  > > 
  > > Does this sound reasonable?
  > > 
  > 
  > Can we bump the version # if there is any change as well as
  > the "date" string everyday? It can be done via a nightly cron job.
That just seems like overkill at this time.  It's not clear that we
need the version # to change every time.

And the cost of doing that is noticable -- we would have had over 700
versions by now, and each and every one that you built and installed
would have gone into its own install directory.

I just haven't seen that much ambiguity in bug reports and such that
leads me to believe that we need to bump the version # for each checkin.
If we do see lots of problems of this nature, then changing the version
number more rapidly would make sense.

jeff