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From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: New aliases for release-building
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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:01:33PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > 
> > In a nutshell, there is now one alias per Tier 1 platform (plus various 
> > name variations), plus a master re-builders alias that sends to all of 
> > the platform aliases.
> 
> Bummer. I thought ia64 was still tier-2. I had plans to use it to get
> away with future ABI breakages. Ah well... :-) 

Nope, IA64 is still officially Tier II, but I know we'd all like it to get
to be Tier I as soon as possible.  Even as Tier II, we can cut a release,
and my understanding is that this would be very helpful for a variety of
reasons, including political ones.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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