From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11741 invoked by alias); 9 Mar 2004 06:51:13 -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 11734 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2004 06:51:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO agminet01.oracle.com) (141.146.126.228) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Mar 2004 06:51:12 -0000 Received: from rgmgw4.us.oracle.com (rgmgw4.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.13]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.2/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id i296p8V7018581; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:51:09 -0800 Received: from rgmgw4.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmgw4.us.oracle.com (Switch-2.1.5/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id i296p8s00854; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:51:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from hotmail.com (incq135bc.idc.oracle.com [152.69.214.135]) by rgmgw4.us.oracle.com (Switch-2.1.5/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id i296p4s00776; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:51:06 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <404D693C.1060503@hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 06:51:00 -0000 From: Ranjit Mathew User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerald Pfeifer CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: 3.5 Snapshots (Again) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00444.txt.bz2 Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >>The last time this issue was raised by Kelly Cook nothing happened, so >>I'm raising this yet again: can we please start having 3.5 snapshots? > > > First we need some infrastructure changes to get the diffs right, > that's the major blocker right now. If you mean the diffs from the last 3.4 snapshot to the newly generated 3.5 snapshot so that people with current snapshots can transition easily, yes I agree. But then, I think these diffs are going to be pretty big anyway and it might be better to avoid them altogether and just download the whole snapshot once more (and continue with diffs in subsequent weeks). > I'll try to work on that tonight. Thank you. >>The policy should be to publish snapshots from the current development >>tree (mainline) and the current release tree - as I said before, I don't >>think there are hordes of hackers just waiting for their weekly 3.3 >>snapshots at this point. > > > Snapshots are not just used by hacker, but also by the FreeBSD system > and probably other as well. And there are quite few hackers which do > not have CVS access. In fact, it is hardly possible to contribute code > to GCC with only snapshot access, as one cannot do proper testing. I didn't know about the FreeBSD part... I am one of those hackers who do not have CVS access, mainly because of bandwidth problems (dial-up is quite unreliable here and "broadband" is expensive and unnecessarily restrictive). I tend to test and submit patches, if any, close to the release of the snapshots to avoid being too out of sync with CVS. In any case, my changes are mostly to GCJ which doesn't violently change every week. :-) Ranjit. -- Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT hotmail DOT com Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://ranjitmathew.tripod.com/