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Re: GDB Focus Group at the 2008 GCC Summit
> > | For people really interested in trying it out before the official
> > | release, perhaps either:
> > | - Announce various nightly tarballs that contain the features
> > | - Or perhaps create a 6.9 branch but never release 6.9. Just
> > | make various pre-releases 6.8.90, 6.8.91, etc.
>
> If you are talking about branching now, I think that will mean that most
> development will happen on the branch, i.e., there's not much point in
> branching. You might as well make bugfix releases, or what GDB calls respins,
> 6.8.1, 6.8.2 etc from the 6.8 branch.
The branch would of course be created when the features are checked
in HEAD, not before.
--
Joel