From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110903084255.GC11185@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E614764.8030202@gmail.com>
On Sep 2 22:15, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 19:40, 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?
>
> Well, it's the only support we have for Pascal and D.
Hmm. And I don't see a Modula-2 compiler in gcc4 either. All of them
exist as gcc frontends. I guess it's just lack of maintainers for
these packages which keeps them from being in the distro?
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-03 8:43 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 [this message]
2011-09-03 13:43 ` Dave Korn
2011-09-07 2:06 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
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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