From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31254 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2012 14:03:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 31181 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2012 14:03:09 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from service87.mimecast.com (HELO service87.mimecast.com) (91.220.42.44) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:02:52 +0000 Received: from cam-owa2.Emea.Arm.com (fw-tnat.cambridge.arm.com [217.140.96.21]) by service87.mimecast.com; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:02:49 +0100 Received: from [10.1.69.67] ([10.1.255.212]) by cam-owa2.Emea.Arm.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:04:14 +0100 Message-ID: <50193705.1060103@arm.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:03:00 -0000 From: Richard Earnshaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tristan Gingold CC: Matthias Klose , "nickc@redhat.com" , binutils Development Subject: Re: Release 2.23 References: <50183FF0.6070200@ubuntu.com> <975FAACC-5CF5-4426-80A5-AB11F995A1F3@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <975FAACC-5CF5-4426-80A5-AB11F995A1F3@adacore.com> X-MC-Unique: 112080115025000701 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 On 01/08/12 14:58, Tristan Gingold wrote: >=20 > On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:28 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: >=20 >> On 23.07.2012 14:40, Tristan Gingold wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was rather busy before the summer and hence I didn't take the time to= create a 2.22.1 release. >>> I can however schedule a release for this summer. So my plan is: >>> >>> * I will create the 2.23 branch this week and creating a pre-release ju= st after. >>> >>> * I plan to do the 2.23 release at the end of August or at the beginnin= g of September (unless there is a blocking issue). >>> >>> So, if you have big or large changes, it would be nice to wait a little= bit. And as usual, do not hesitate to test your favourite platforms. >> >> what are the chances to get the recently submitted aarch64 target backpo= rted to >> the branch once it is accepted for the trunk? >=20 > Looks like some of you would like to have aarch64 in 2.23. > As it might change the schedule, I'd like to understand the reasons for h= aving aarch64 in 2.23 >=20 > Tristan. >=20 Because binutils is a key enabler and rolling this out into various distros is significantly harder if it isn't in a major release. In particular we're targetting GCC-4.8 for the main compiler support and that needs a binutils that supports it. Why are we planning a binutils release so much earlier this year than we have done for the previous 3 or 4 years (at least)? R.