Re: GAS copyright update

[Philip Blundell <pb at labs dot futuretv dot com>]

In message <20000504113649.A2426@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 07:16:30PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
>> 
>> Not really.  IA-64 wasn't added until after the 2.10 branch was forked.  I 
>> haven't actually looked into how intrusive the changes would be if we wanted
> 
>> to add it, but at this stage in the release cycle I really don't want to do 
>> that anyway.
>
>When is the next release to happen?

I would hope that 2.10 will be released within a couple of weeks, and (very 
vaguely) 2.11 by the end of the year.

>Can we discuss this more as this position puts me/FreeBSD in a large bind.

We can certainly discuss it.  If you can convince me that backporting the 
IA-64 parts would not destabilise any other areas of code then we could 
perhaps consider it for some subsequent release on the 2.10 branch.

>> Then those using IA-64 can work from a snapshot of the trunk.
>
>Yes and then the i386 bits and Alpha bits suffer needlessly.

Can't you use a different source base for different architectures?  This sort 
of situation will always happen - wherever you draw the cut-off point for a 
release, there are going to be some features left out.  For example, the CRIS 
port didn't get in to 2.10 either.  If you felt that your life would be made 
noticeably and needlessly more miserable by not having IA-64 in 2.10 the time 
to speak out was back in March when the release branch was being created, not 
now when we are trying to put the finishing touches to the release.

p.