Re: GCC 4.1 snapshots

["Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> At this point, we have three open release branches (4.1, 4.2, and 4.3)
> and trunk.  Currently we are generating weekly snapshots for all four
> of these.
>
> A while ago we agreed, for a number of reasons, not to do any further
> GCC 4.1.x releases and the speed of changes on that branch has noticably
> slowed down.
>
> My recommendation in my very unoffical role as "carer of the snapshots"
> is to stop doing those weekly snapshots for the 4.1 branch, and I will
> be happy to roll a new snapshot upon request in case someone (like a
> GNU/Linux or BSD distribution would like to see one for their packages)
> in that case.
>
> If there is agreement, I am happy to take the appropriate technical
> steps.
>
> Thoughts?

I'd rather close the 4.2 branch than the 4.1 one.  Unfortunately the FSF
has put us in a situation where we can't do any more 4.1 releases.  Can we
slow down the 4.1 snapshot interval to 4 weeks instead?

Thanks,
Richard.