From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22999 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2011 02:06:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 22984 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Sep 2011 02:06:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yx0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-yx0-f171.google.com) (209.85.213.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:06:25 +0000 Received: by yxs7 with SMTP id 7so3950285yxs.2 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.91.69.33 with SMTP id w33mr4307010agk.112.1315361184566; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net [24.79.200.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm2622011anl.12.2011.09.06.19.06.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro? From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin-apps Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:06:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20110902184056.GA11185@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20110902184056.GA11185@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1315361190.3736.56.camel@YAAKOV04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-09/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 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