From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2725 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2011 08:43:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 2685 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Sep 2011 08:43:12 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:42:57 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3757A2CB465; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 10:42:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:43:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro? Message-ID: <20110903084255.GC11185@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20110902184056.GA11185@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E614764.8030202@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E614764.8030202@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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/msg00016.txt.bz2 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat