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Re: Why is gold still beta?
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Christoph GrÃninger <foss at grueninger dot de>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:25:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: Why is gold still beta?
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Christoph GrÃninger <foss@grueninger.de> wrote:
>
>> I think it can come out of beta when some distro makes it the
>> standard linker.
>
> Sounds like an chicken-and-egg problem to me. Which distro will include
> a beta linker as their default?
The people who select the software to provide in distros are not, in
my experience, hung up on labels.
Ian