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At 9:37 AM -0600 6/7/04, Scott Long wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>I think you have to officially demote it, with emphasis on the
>>point that "demotion is not a terminal condition".  Then, if some
>>developer(s) show up and implement all the missing pieces, we
>>can happily announce it back in tier 1.
>>
>>But for now, say that it *IS* demoted.  Not that you're advocating
>>that we think about maybe demoting it in the future unless someone
>>offers to start looking into the missing pieces.
>
>One thing to note is that whatever platforms get dropped from tier-1
>status will have a high probablility of not getting updated with the
>upcoming binutils/gcc/gdb update that is coming.

If that is the case, then you can not say "demotion is not a terminal
condition".  That sounds pretty terminal to me.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu