From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Release 2.12
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011025120041.C1037@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00473.html

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:43:41PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> There seems to be consensus that 2.12.0 is needed.
> Once H.J. says 'yes' to HP's email, is this a good time to create the
> 2_12 branch? :-))

May I remind you that the binutils project isn't run as a democracy?  :-)

Addressing the technical side of this question, I'd say that we need
a freeze on new features to let the tree stabilise before branching.
eg. some of my recent commits broke various things, and I've had reports
that ppc embedded targets are broken due to mrg's recent commit.

Alan