GCC maintainer volunteer?

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Wed Mar 6 10:29:00 GMT 2013


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



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