From: Peter Gerwinski peter@gerwinski.de Subject: GPC 2.1 for EGCS 1.1? To: law@cygnus.com Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 13:14:21 +0200 (MEST) Cc: gpc@hut.fi
Hello, Jeff! Hello, all!
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It is probably not reasonable to try to integrate the BP compatibility package and other independent contributions (such as GRX) into the GPC distribution by this date, so let's keep them independent.
Agreed.
The tenative schedule for the egcs-1.1 release is: * July 3, 1998. Feature freeze date. All new features, optimizations, etc need to be submitted by this date. It is very likely we will not be able to integrate all the submissions, but we want to have all of them available for evaluation by this date. It is also possible some patches which have been submitted and are accepted for egcs-1.1 will not have been installed by this date due to EOQ committments for many of the Cygnus volunteers. After July 3, 1998, only bugfix submissions will be considered for the egcs-1.1 release. By July 3, 1998, we also want to have a testing plan and release criteria in place.
For GPC this means that all scheduled features (e.g. some filled BP holes) have to be in place by that date. This merely concerns my own work.
I will try to compose a new :-) beta (-: GPC snapshot by this weekend.
* July 11, 1998. Branch Creation & Testing. We will create the egcs-1.1 branch on this date and snapshots will occur from the egcs-1.1 branch instead of the mainline sources. By this date we'd like to have all the new features, optimizations, etc slated for the egcs-1.1 release installed in the source tree. We also expect wide scale, focused testing to start on July 11th.It would be desirable to release updated versions of BPcompat etc. together with gpc-2.1 (while in a separate package).
BPCompat 2.0 is virtually completed. I am awaiting a final beta before finalising it. Unfortunately, I have had to drop support for the cygwin compiler, which seems to have been left far behind. Cygwin users will have to stick with Bpcomat 1.x.
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