Long release cycle (was: RE: uclibc tool chain installation problem)

[Peter S. Mazinger]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 06:49:51PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:26, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > we should have gcc and binutils patches in shape prior to the
> > > .29 release.
> > 
> > there shouldnt be any trouble with binutils ... especially
> > 2.16.91.0.7; pretty much everything we patch now are libtool
> > files :)
> 
> Any reason you can think of then why we should keep supporting
> other binutils versions?  Perhaps it is time to cull the older
> binutils releases from the mix.
> 
>  -Erik

I would at least keep one non-HJL version, last being 2.16.1, sometimes 
the 2.x.9x* versions (HJL) have too many changes and are unstable/produce 
bad code.

Peter

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