Stable release?

Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000

>> Would it be possible for us (the GCJ team) to "brand" a snapshot of
>> EGCS which we believe is stable for the purposes of using GCJ?
>> There's no reason we need to be gated on the EGCS team; we simply
>> take a known-good snapshot of EGCS and make that available on the
>> website.

Andrew> Yes, but then we'd have to tag the egcs source tree and
Andrew> support that version with continuing bug fixes. Do we really
Andrew> want to do that?
Not to mention testing, and potential ill-will from the gcc team.
Doing any sort of release is a big deal.
I think for now we're just stuck with the situation, lousy as it is.
However, I also think that now is the time to come up with a plan to
ensure that we aren't in this same position in the future.
It's possible there's nothing we can do. The runtime is tightly
coupled to the compiler, and compiler work continues. If the gcc team
decides to not do minor releases while waiting (interminably :-) for a
major release, we're screwed. So maybe the right approach is to bring
this concern up with the gcc maintainers.
Tom