From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110908135744.GE6163@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315361190.3736.56.camel@YAAKOV04>
On Sep 6 21:06, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> 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.
Sounds right to me. It's a pity that we don't have another good
replacement for Pascal(*) and Modula-2(**), but that doesn't mean we
have t ostick to gcc3 endlessly.
Corinna
(*) Porting FreePascal, anybody?
(**) ???
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-08 13:59 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)
2011-09-08 13:59 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2011-09-08 16:50 ` Andrew Schulman
2011-09-10 10:12 ` Reini Urban
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