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On Friday 27 April 2012 06:46:48 Alan Modra wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:31:56PM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote: > > One more word about binutils release: I think it is not as important as > > it was in the past. Many (> 99% maybe) of binutils users use > > Fedora/Suse/RH/XXX versions of binutils, which follow a second release > > process. > > Yes, and the funny thing about that is that I get to backport to Suse > and RedHat as I just said in another email. So they stay on an older > binutils release for stablity, but their powerpc backends look > surprisingly like mainline binutils! and that works only because there is an experienced developer making sure it works. imo, it shouldn't take a binutils expert to make the binutils releases usable for everyone. hence doing point releases with targeted bug fixes. -mike
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