On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

> Are there any guesstimates on when well see an official release that
> supports SMP and pthreads?

No dates have been set. Sometime next year? I would expect to see some
sort of tentative schedule announced by Northern Spring, at least.

> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> >
> > > Since 1.6.2 is only supposed to be a maintenance release for 1.6.1, will
> > > it include the SMP x86 support and the new threading library?
> >
> > No. Certainly no pthreads. You might still be able to find patches
> > against 1.6 for SMP floating around, but that would likely require
> > some effort to pull forward to 1.6.2. Current is a better bet. SMP
> > under current is quite usable these days.

Frederick