NightStrike <nightstr...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Joe Buck <joe.b...@synopsys.com> wrote: >> GCC uses are the ones developed in the egcs days. Remember the old >> days when the location of the development tree and the snapshots was >> a secret, and people were threatened with banning if they let it out? > > Are you serious? Why would it be handled that way?
It was because some developers were afraid that people would confuse development snapshots with official releases. Also, releases were made more often back then. I think the GNU binutils was the first GNU project to break that rule, when Ken Raeburn started making weekly snapshots of the development tree around 1994 or so. He was following the lead of Linus and the kernel. Ian
