As I get back into doing something useful (i.e., maintain/evolve mspgcc), I'm proposing the following release process to help ensure stability while promoting innovation and decreasing maintenance overhead:
Certain releases of mspgcc will be marked as "Long Term Support". These releases include well-tested sets of patches against specific versions of upstream packages like gcc and binutils. The maintenance promise for LTS releases is that reproducible "significant" bugs for which a non-disruptive fixes can be identified will be fixed and patches supplied which can be applied on top of the patches provided in the corresponding mspgcc release. Other releases should be considered development snapshots. They may be based on development (unversioned) snapshots of upstream tools. No official patches will be released for these, and support for them ends on the release of the next version of mspgcc. Downstream packagers should publish only LTS releases, and should periodically check for new patches to be integrated into their packages (though I'll try to announce them periodically). Patches are archived on the patches branch of the mspgcc repository, and are published for individual download at in Files/Patches on SourceForge. Such patches will also be committed to the release branches on the gcc/binutils/gdb git repositories. 20110716 will be treated as an LTS release. Patches for the following reported issues are now available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mspgcc/files/Patches/LTS/20110716/ SF 3370978: ICE on shift with 32-bit count SF 3379341: non-empty ARCH environment variable results unusable ld ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
