From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14956 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2006 14:15:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 14946 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2006 14:15:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-229.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.229) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:15:09 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 114CB13C0F1; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:15:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:15:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: life expectancy of gcc 3.x Message-ID: <20060802141508.GA18123@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <44D0B10F.9060808@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D0B10F.9060808@bellsouth.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 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/msg00080.txt.bz2 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