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| | A suggestion has been made to merge gas into the binutils package, | meaning there'd be only one distribution. It's an idea that's | occurred to me before. And of course it's what I'm already doing for | the nightly snapshots, though they're going under the name `gas' at | the moment rather than `binutils'. | | That would make it about 2/3 the size of the current two packages, | with bfd &c duplicated. On the other hand, it means someone wanting | to pick up gas alone would have to download a bit more. | | The linker has got SunOS shared library support added (linking against | them, not creating them), and other nifty new features. So that at | least is no longer an argument for using gas but not the rest of | binutils (specifically the linker). Offhand I don't know of a | situation where you'd want binutils but not gas, though there may be | one or two targets supported by binutils but not gas. And of course | people would still have the option of only installing some of the | programs distributed as `binutils'. | | Does anyone see a good reason why I shouldn't just combine them, and | release `binutils 2.5, including assembler and linker' sometime? I would say that ok, provided either the old gas tar files get removed from prep, or a symlink is created from binutils-2.5.tar.gz to gas-2.5.tar.gz is made.