From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 21 16:56:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00650 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:56:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00626 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07892; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:54:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:54:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Studded cc: Nate Williams , The Subject: Re: CVS version updated In-Reply-To: <362E657F.34F3AA87@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Studded wrote: > > I think the next big step past a elf kernel is moving gcc up to 2.8.1, > > which many of us would like to see. I think it's got a real chance in > > the next 1-3 months. > > I really hope you're not saying that more than one upgrade can't happen > at the same time. Depends on the size of the change (how much it affects). The larger the change, the farther apart they must be, just so that breakage is more obvious. Nobody's going to make a major change within a week or two of changing any really major tool ... or if they do, no one's going to be very happy about the confusion it causes in bug reports. Example, your cvs suggestion, and gcc upgrade. They most definitely won't be occuring simultaneously. That doesn't mean a month apart, either. If there's lots of successful reports, and no reported problems, then the committer with the 2nd change in mind is going to feel more comfortable about making another change more quickly. It's not an absolute rule, it's common sense. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message