Long release cycle (was: RE: uclibc tool chain installation problem)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 19:02, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 06:49:51PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:26, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > we should have gcc and binutils patches in shape prior to the
> > > .29 release.
> >
> > there shouldnt be any trouble with binutils ... especially
> > 2.16.91.0.7; pretty much everything we patch now are libtool
> > files :)
>
> Any reason you can think of then why we should keep supporting
> other binutils versions?  Perhaps it is time to cull the older
> binutils releases from the mix.

i dont see much reason to keep anything lower than 2.16.1 at this time ... 
every once in a while someone likes to use something older, but that someone 
isnt me ;)
-mike