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RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'oh no an on-topic post! boooooo!'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:24:15 +0100
- Subject: RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 02 August 2006 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:05:03AM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
>> Would anybody venture an educated guess how much longer gcc 3.x (and
>> hence g77) will be supported by cygwin? gfortran does not seem to offer
>> as many options as g77 for managing archaic code (e.g. from netlib).
>
> Just as a rough seat-of-the pants guesstimate, I'd say that it would be
> supported for at least another 5.99321719 months.
>
> cgf
I'm in no immediate hurry to retire 3.x, as I still don't feel the 4.x
series has stabilised enough to really count as production-ready yet, so you
can reasonably expect 3.x to remain available for a good time yet, and when I
do feel ready to release a 4.x version I'll keep a 3.x version as the 'prev'
version for a fair while after that too.
OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment. I can't predict what might
happen then.
cheers,
DaveK
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