On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:

> Better would be to release a version of the tree whenever it happens to
> stabilize, as measured by successful bulk-builds of the whole tree on
> targeted platforms.  For example, take a snapshot every Saturday at 3:00
> UTC.  Build it on sparc and i386 (and/or anything else that will do the
> job in under a week!) 

well, my sparc 20 took around 6 weeks for the 1.6 build.

-dan