Release 2.12

[H . J . Lu]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:00:41PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:43:41PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > 
> > There seems to be consensus that 2.12.0 is needed.
> > Once H.J. says 'yes' to HP's email, is this a good time to create the
> > 2_12 branch? :-))
> 
> May I remind you that the binutils project isn't run as a democracy?  :-)
> 
> Addressing the technical side of this question, I'd say that we need
> a freeze on new features to let the tree stabilise before branching.
> eg. some of my recent commits broke various things, and I've had reports
> that ppc embedded targets are broken due to mrg's recent commit.
> 

The problem with those targets is the binutils in CVS rarely gets tested
on them. Unlike Linux, my Linux binutils keeps CVS in a relatively sane
state, at least on Linux. When the new release is coming up, there is very
little needed to be done on Linux, unless the release branch is made
at the wrong time :-(.


H.J.