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Release 2.23

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Wed Aug 1 15:50:00 GMT 2012 
On Wednesday 01 August 2012 10:35:11 Tristan Gingold wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> >> As it might change the schedule, I'd like to understand the reasons for
> >> having aarch64 in 2.23
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Looks like a good rational, but this opens other possibilities:
> 
> * would it be acceptable to add aarch64 only in 2.23.1 (in case the
> submission takes time) ?

that'd be my preference -- let's get 2.23 now, and when aarch64 is finally done 
& merged, we can do a 2.23.1 follow up
-mike
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