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Re: Release 2.12

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:10:41PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> Because critical bugs are found in the released versions and not fixed. 
> GNU Libc, for instance, has an unpleasant habit of depending on
> binutils not-yet-released.  The patches don't tend to be easily
> back-portable for those without a history of binutils experience.  If
> we want to make new programs work, we need to move forward fairly
> frequently, and HJ offers the only way to do that.

Which is the sense that I meant "better".  ie. as things stand at the
moment, HJ's binutils-2.11.92.0.10 is probably better than 2.11.2 for
most people.  I wasn't trying to say that 2.11 was worse than HJ's
release just before the 2.11 release date.

Alan
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