gcc package idea for consideration.

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 01:53:41AM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote:
>I am interested/willing (but certainly not overly qualified) in
>maintaining gcc.
>
>Infact, my lack of qualifications are to the point where i'm not sure
>i'm willing to maintain cygwin branch based gcc package.
>
>So i'm going to propose an idea, just incase it doesnt get shot down.
>Or maybe Chris could convince me that i dont actually need to know
>anything to be able to maintain the gcc with cygwin specials package at
>all.

You need to know C, shell, autoconf, and CVS.  I don't really have to
tell you what you need to know.  You could just try it if you are
interested.

>So my proposal is, a blatant rip off from debian.  I propose a
>gcc-testing package.  This package will be taken from gcc cvs (not
>cygwin/mingw32 branch).  However, unlike debian's gcc-testing package,
>I would choose the branch which will have the next official gcc
>release.  That would be 3.3 at the current time.  (where as debian
>gcc-testing is 3.4)

That doesn't help.  There are still many customizations in the gcc/mingw
branch that are not in the mainline.  Releasing a package without these
customizations would just confuse people.

cgf