Latest Snapshot RTEMS build problem

[Ralf Corsepius]

Nick.SIMON at syntegra.com wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ralf Corsepius [mailto:corsepiu at faw.uni-ulm.de]
> > Sent: 17 May 2001 17:01
> > To: brett.swimley at aedinc.net
> > Cc: 'RTEMS'
> > Subject: Re: Latest Snapshot RTEMS build problem
> >
> >
> > Brett Swimley wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been trying to Build the latest snapshot of RTEMS for
> > various m68k

> > > `/home/bretts/rtems-4.5.0-beta3/tools/build-m68k-rtem
> > > s/m68k-rtems/c/efi332/libmisc/wrapup'
> > Hmm, *-beta3 is by no means the latest snapshot.
> 
> Is it really a good idea to have everyone - especially newcomers - leaping
> to snapshots? 
Definitely not. 

Though the snapshots are supposed to be fully functional, they can
vary in usablity/quality to a large extend.
[I for one welcome everybody who is testing the snapshots ;)]

> Surely, unless there is a pressing need for the latest
> whatever, people should by and large go for the latest stable release which
> AFAIK is 4.5.0.
Yep, I only referred to the snapshot, because Brett mentioned to be
using it and I saw *-beta3 on his path.
 
Ralf