Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Feb 27 20:05, JonY wrote:
> On 2/25/2013 22:40, JonY wrote:
> > On 2/24/2013 12:55, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:01:56AM +0800, JonY wrote:
> >>> On 2/24/2013 09:39, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> But isn't all this irrelevant for you?  There's no reason to keep gcc3
> >>>> around anymore, is there?
> >>>
> >>> I don't know, I'll leave that to the core Cygwin devs to decide.
> >>
> >> I'd be happy to get rid of it but don't people still use it?  We can't
> >> have the gcc4 package overwriting someone's gcc3 if so.
> >>
> > 
> > OK.
> > 
> > Anyway, packaging is taking longer than expected, still working on
> > packaging bugs.
> > 
> > I'm thinking of releasing a test version without Java, not all the
> > patches have been integrated yet.
> > 
> 
> I now have gcc4-4.7.2-1 built with all the patches integrated but Java
> doesn't build, it is a separate issue. I'm hesitant to push it directly
> to the download servers, might break things.
> 
> I've put the following in the hits file:
> curr: 4.5.3-3
> prev: 4.3.4-4
> test: 4.7.2-1
> 
> Any staging areas or advice?

Just upload the test release to the release area and write a TEST mail
to cygwin-announce.  Or is there anything special you'd like to do?


Corinna

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