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Re: Release 2.12

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:05:14PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> 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.

In which case, sorry for the misunderstanding.  I agree.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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