Release 2.12

[Philip Blundell]

>The real question here is "why don't debian and hard hat use FSF
>binutils releases in preference to HJ's releases?"

Because, pretty clearly, FSF releases are still not happening often enough; 
bugs don't get fixed in a timely fashion.

Having thought about the matter a bit in recent weeks, I think a release every 
two or three months would probably be about right, with maybe a patch version 
or two in the interim.  They need to be seldom enough for a reasonable amount 
of testing to go on -- distributions like Red Hat and Debian could probably 
tolerate more instability, because they do their own QA, but for individual 
users, particularly on slightly obscure platforms, it will take some care to 
make sure that each release doesn't just end up swapping one bug-of-the-day for 
another. 

p.