From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25679 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2004 05:10:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 25666 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2004 05:10:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO boden.synopsys.com) (198.182.44.79) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 15 Nov 2004 05:10:22 -0000 Received: from crone.synopsys.com (crone.synopsys.com [146.225.7.23]) by boden.synopsys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300C0DB4C; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:09:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from piper.synopsys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crone.synopsys.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA12465; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:10:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by piper.synopsys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id iAF5AKO10630; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:10:20 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: piper.synopsys.com: jbuck set sender to Joe.Buck@synopsys.com using -f Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:18:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: Denis Vakatov Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: The 3.4.X line future (for the next half a year)? Message-ID: <20041114211020.A5246@synopsys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from vakatov@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov on Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 03:35:28PM -0500 X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00482.txt.bz2 On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 03:35:28PM -0500, Denis Vakatov wrote: > QUESTION: (to the GCC developers/maintainers of 3.4.X line) > > What are your [ballpark, subjective, gut-feeling] expectations about: > > 1) The schedule of the future 3.4.X bug-fix releases (how often and > how many and for how long). Here's just one view. There's no set schedule; I think you can be reasonably confident that there will be at least one more release (though this is not a promise); after that, it depends on volunteer availability. > 2) Having all (most) major and medium-importance known compiler > issues taken care of -- in the nearest 3-6 months. You can be certain that this will NOT happen in the 3.4.x series. There will be bug fixes, but all of the problems are not going to be solved. In particular, the performance and code quality problems are going to be addressed as part of 4.0, not 3.4. If fixes cannot be backported without major changes, they would probably be considered too risky.