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Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:06:28 -0500
- Subject: Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?
- References: <20110902184056.GA11185@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 20:40 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> As the subject says, shouldn't we remove gcc3 from the distro finally?
> We have 3 mingw compilers and gcc4 for Cygwin. What reason is left
> to stick to gcc 3?
Based on Dave's response, only GDC. Therefore, I would say that once
he's ready to ship a GDC-enabled gcc-4.5+, then gcc3 can and should go,
at which point gcc4 can become gcc and the -4 suffixes can be dropped.
Yaakov