On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Richard Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Joseph S. Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, H.J. Lu wrote: > > > >> Do we really need a new snapshot when only DATESTAMP is updated? I > >> think it is a waste > >> of resources. > > It is. > > > When 4.4 has branched I plan to close 4.2 branch. > > Maybe we can remove DATESTAMP and updating it now that > gcc_update understands to extract the SVN revision number?
I think DATESTAMP serves a useful purpose in providing immediate identification of what trunk or release branch version given sources are based on, when those sources may be another branch last merged from trunk or a release branch a while back or imported into another version control system, so that a revision number does not give this information. Anyway, removing DATESTAMP would change the issue to new snapshots with no changes rather than with just DATESTAMP changes. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
