From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russ Allbery To: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Release 2.12 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:37:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20011025110841.Z1037@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00475.html Alan Modra writes: > As HP commented to me in private mail, H.J. is already acting as release > manager. The number of people using HJ's releases should speak loudly; > if he was doing something wrong there would be a large scale migration > of linux users back to FSF releases. binutils is not, however, solely for Linux. I think one of the major questions would be whether he wants to put the same work into making sure the other platforms also work. As I recall, his binutils releases are generally marked as only being appropriate for Linux systems. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) < http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ >