From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philip Blundell To: binutils@sources.redhat.com, Hans-Peter Nilsson , "H . J . Lu" Subject: Re: Release 2.12 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:56:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20011025110841.Z1037@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <20011024215003.A9135@nevyn.them.org> <20011025121333.D1037@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00484.html >The real question here is "why don't debian and hard hat use FSF >binutils releases in preference to HJ's releases?" Because, pretty clearly, FSF releases are still not happening often enough; bugs don't get fixed in a timely fashion. Having thought about the matter a bit in recent weeks, I think a release every two or three months would probably be about right, with maybe a patch version or two in the interim. They need to be seldom enough for a reasonable amount of testing to go on -- distributions like Red Hat and Debian could probably tolerate more instability, because they do their own QA, but for individual users, particularly on slightly obscure platforms, it will take some care to make sure that each release doesn't just end up swapping one bug-of-the-day for another. p.