Branching this weekend

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Nick,

>> Correct - I will be evaluating the branch for at least 2 weeks.
> 
> Presumably there's no objection to bugfixes and reversals of
> in-hindsight-ill-advised changes made in trunk between the branch and
> release? I have some libctf stuff coming up in the next day or so...

Bug fixes - please go ahead.

API reversals are ... more of a grey area.  If the bit of the API
that you are changing is new - ie not yet in any binutils release -
then changing it is OK.  (As long as you are sure that the change
is correct).  If the part that you want to change is an established
component of the API then I would be against the change.  Last minute
changes often have repercussions that are not apparent at the time
that they are made.  So giving a change time to percolate in the
development sources is usually a good idea.

Cheers
   Nick