From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 21 17:56:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05972 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:56:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05967 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:56:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23547; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <362E82B0.7835CE6F@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:56:16 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-1015 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey CC: The Subject: Re: CVS version updated References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey wrote: > > 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). I realize that you don't know who I am or what I do for a living, so I will just say that I was speaking tongue in cheek, but I'm sure that the full explanation of the upgrade procedure is useful. :) > 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. So the recent merge-a-thon in -current was a bad idea? Ok, I'll make a note. :) Thanks, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Go PADRES! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message