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From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1315361190.3736.56.camel@YAAKOV04> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110902184056.GA11185@calimero.vinschen.de>

On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 20:40 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> As the subject says, shouldn't we remove gcc3 from the distro finally?
> We have 3 mingw compilers and gcc4 for Cygwin.  What reason is left
> to stick to gcc 3?

Based on Dave's response, only GDC.  Therefore, I would say that once
he's ready to ship a GDC-enabled gcc-4.5+, then gcc3 can and should go,
at which point gcc4 can become gcc and the -4 suffixes can be dropped.


Yaakov


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-02 18:41 Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-02 21:15 ` Dave Korn
2011-09-03  8:43   ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-03 13:43     ` Dave Korn
2011-09-07  2:06 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X) [this message]
2011-09-08 13:59   ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-09-08 16:50     ` Andrew Schulman
2011-09-10 10:12     ` Reini Urban

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