Re: gcc development schedule [Re: sharing libcpp between GDB and GCC]

Andreas Jaeger
2002-03-27T05:32:05Z

David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:

>>>>>> Richard Henderson writes:
>
> Richard> I think this is a mistake. It is completely unreasonable to have
> Richard> the entire "major structural changes" time period concurrent with
> Richard> "please work on making a release happen".
>
> Richard> I've been working under the assumption that the current schedule can
> Richard> be changed, so that I can help Diego with the language independent
> Richard> tree-ish IL after the 3.1 release.
>
> I agree. We do not have enough developer bandwidth to work on
> major, new changes concurrently with the release process. Even after GCC
> 3.1.0 is released, we will need to assess how much effort will be required
> for the GCC 3.1.1 bug-fix release the following quarter.

<AOL> I agree, too</AOL>.

Even if development is done on branches, it takes time to bring
changes back into mainline in a clean way: test them properly on
various platforms, split them in small pieces, get them reviewed,...
2 months is not enough for this - and then you should be working on
the same time on getting a good release out. An 8 or 10 month release
cycle seems more approbriate with the GCC man power.

Andreas
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