Re: bk-3.2.0 released

Stan Bubrouski
2004-05-19T21:20:48Z

Guys,

Honestly this crap is getting very silly even though you are all
serious. People announce things on this list all the time that
are not really a part of the kernel but affect development, and
with the traffic on this list anyways, I don't see how Larry
announcing a new release of BitKeeper is offtopic or innappropriate.

Furthermore, it seems like any time Larry posts anything not in a thread
starting with [patch] or [oops] someone goes off on some political or
otherwise rant and its getting really really old. The threads become
long and littered with opinions that contribute nothing but someone's
$0.2 in a case where it makes no difference at all except to the
bandwith the posts complaining about posts wastes.

Lighten up I guess is all I'm saying.

-sb

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 16:06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004 16:26:56 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw said:
> > On Wed, 2004-05-19 07:16:48 -0700, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
> > wrote in message <20040519141648.GB18977@work.bitmover.com>:
> > > new version of a widely used tool is available? If someone posted that
> > > there is a new version of gcc available is that off topic? =20
> >
> > Yes, it was. Even miscompilation reports are mostly OT, since they
> > should go to GCC's bugzilla.
>
> Given the number of times (it's well past non-zero) we've changed around kernel
> source in order to work around a bug in one or another widely-distributed
> release of gcc, I think miscompile reports *are* on topic.
>
> I seem to remember that gcc 3.4 did oddness with inlining strcpy that resulted
> in a source tweak to lib/strings.c not too long ago, as just one example...
>
> And there was the "read/write constraints and registers" warning recently...
>
> And there was.... you get the idea...
>