From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: branch snapshot version tag
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:42:00 -0000
Message-id: <3BD0BA3A.8090003@cygnus.com>
References: <3BCE6245.9080508@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00205.html

> Hmm,
> 
> The current branch snapshot process is setting the version tag (version.in) to YYYYMMDD.  This is a little unfortunate since snapshots taken from the trunk are also setting version.in to YYYYMMDD. Might be a good idea if I change it.
> 
> My first choice for the snapshot version.in would be 5.0.91-YYYYMMDD but due to a ``technical problem'' with the snapshot scripts that won't work.
> 
> That leads to my second and third choices.
> 
>     5.0.91.YYYYMMDD
> or 5.0.91_YYYYMMDD
> 
> Unless someone comes up with a compelling argument for why one of these is better than the other, I'll toss a coin and then tweek the snapshot process to generate the second one.

Just so people are clear on this.  5.1 branch snapshot tarball will be 
named:

	gdb+dejagnu-5.0.90_20011020.tar.bz

and the startup message when that tar ball is built will be:

	$ gdb
	GNU gdb 5.0.90_20011020

enjoy,
Andrew