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Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?
- From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 04:29:24 -0600
- Subject: Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:55:43 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'd be happy to get rid of it but don't people still use it? We can't
> have the gcc4 package overwriting someone's gcc3 if so.
For what exactly? The only messages I have seen about it are those who
installed 'gcc' thinking it was the current version only to realize
they needed 'gcc4'. No recent distro still supported 3.4, -mno-cygwin
has been completely replaced by mingw64-*-gcc, and any software
included in distributions that doesn't compile OOTB with 4.x will have
patches available from those distros. I think it's past time to scrap
3.4.
Yaakov