GCC maintainer volunteer?

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Feb 25 18:22:00 GMT 2013


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:40:04PM +0800, JonY wrote:
>On 2/24/2013 12:55, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:01:56AM +0800, JonY wrote:
>>> On 2/24/2013 09:39, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> But isn't all this irrelevant for you?  There's no reason to keep gcc3
>>>> around anymore, is there?
>>>
>>> I don't know, I'll leave that to the core Cygwin devs to decide.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>
>OK.
>
>Anyway, packaging is taking longer than expected, still working on
>packaging bugs.
>
>I'm thinking of releasing a test version without Java, not all the
>patches have been integrated yet.

Hmm.  We're in a unique situation here where Dave Korn seems to think
he's still the maintainer but isn't responding to email in cygwin-apps.

Dave, could you please respond to cygwin-apps?

cgf



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