Re: [avr-libc-dev] Release?

[Joerg Wunsch]

As E. Weddington wrote:

> Well, consider who will use it: Practically all Windows users go
> with WinAVR, which will be 1.2.0. There's Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac
> OSX users.  The Mac folks are limited to a handful of people (afaik)
> so I would think 1.2.0 would be fine unless they complain. You've
> got the pulse on the FreeBSD community.

You convinced me. ;-)

I'm certainly not going to maintain two releases of the FreeBSD port
of it, so OK, forget about it, it has just been a stupid idea.
Whoever really needs it can pull it as well straight from CVS, as he
has to compile it himself anyway.

As time permits, I might backport severe bugfixes into the 1.0 branch
even while we continue running 1.2-style releases.

> And I'm not really sure about the Linux folks, as 
> regular RPMs don't seem to be built.

I don't have the slightest idea what it would take to build and ship
Linux RPMs.  Supposedly, the infrastructure (package files and stuff)
are already sitting in the tree (avr-libc.spec.in), aren't they?  I do
have access to a Linux devel machine at work, so the phyiscal act of
rolling an RPM and transferring it over to Savannah shouldn't be too
hard if people think that would help anyone.

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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
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