From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18497 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2006 14:24:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 18485 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2006 14:24:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (194.72.81.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:24:17 +0000 Received: from mail.artimi.com ([192.168.1.3]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:24:15 +0100 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.1.165]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:24:15 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'oh no an on-topic post! boooooo!'" Subject: RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: <050901c6b63f$54fd7750$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20060802141508.GA18123@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 On 02 August 2006 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:05:03AM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote: >> Would anybody venture an educated guess how much longer gcc 3.x (and >> hence g77) will be supported by cygwin? gfortran does not seem to offer >> as many options as g77 for managing archaic code (e.g. from netlib). > > Just as a rough seat-of-the pants guesstimate, I'd say that it would be > supported for at least another 5.99321719 months. > > cgf I'm in no immediate hurry to retire 3.x, as I still don't feel the 4.x series has stabilised enough to really count as production-ready yet, so you can reasonably expect 3.x to remain available for a good time yet, and when I do feel ready to release a 4.x version I'll keep a 3.x version as the 'prev' version for a fair while after that too. OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment. I can't predict what might happen then. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....