From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9875 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2003 19:06:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Received: (qmail 7772 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2003 19:05:16 -0000 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:06:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: package removed: gcc2-2.95-* Message-ID: <20031012190514.GA4579@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20031005051201.GB26312@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031005051201.GB26312@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 As previously stated, I have now removed gcc2 from the distribution on sources.redhat.com. It will disappear from mirrors shortly, I'm sure. Please send complaints to dev-null@cygwin.com. On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:12:01AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I don't have the time or the inclination to support gcc 2.95 (aka the >gcc2 package). That fact wasn't a really big deal until David >Billinghurst pointed out that the package contained a serious flaw. So, >rather than subject people to a broken g++, I will be end-of-lifing the >gcc2 package next week unless someone steps forward to claim package >maintainership. > >This means I will remove the package from sources.redhat.com and it >will no longer be available for download via setup.exe. > >If you are interested in maintaining this package, please send email >to cygwin-apps. Serious inquries only, please, i.e. no "I have never >built a package before and don't really know C but if you are available >to step me through ever individual step required, I might do it if it >isn't too hard." > >If you have questions or comments not related to volunteering for >maintainership, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list: >see . > >Oh, and I probably have to say that the gcc 3.3.1 package will still be >available. > > *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** > >If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look >at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. >Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: > >cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com > >If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: > >http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple > >Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available >starting at this URL.