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From: Tomasz Pona <koczis@parasoft.com>
To: <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: GCC 4.8 & cygwin32 vs. cygwin64 packages and installers
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F197AF.60802@parasoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99006DC9-589D-4757-832F-8CDA638E6884@etr-usa.com>

 > If you want old versions of Cygwin packages, dig them out of
 > the Cygwin Time Machine:
 >    http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/
 >
Great!
GCC 4.8 seems to be still archived under entry:
1.7.33-1 	1422835808 	2.859 	2015/02/01-161008 
ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2015/02/01/161008


Thanks a lot and regards,
Tomasz Pona



W dniu 2015-09-10 o 16:10, Warren Young pisze:
> On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Tomasz Pona <koczis@parasoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> This explains me everything except the versions available: 4.8 is still available as cross-compilers, but not as the standard one.
>
> Different people maintain those two package sets, and each package maintainer is free to set their own policies for what constitutes the current and previous versions of any given package.
>
> Your observation that one maintainer does one thing and another does something different does not bind the other maintainer to behave the same way.
>
> If you want old versions of Cygwin packages, dig them out of the Cygwin Time Machine:
>
>    http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/
>

      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-10 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-10 11:23 Tomasz Pona
2015-09-10 12:18 ` Marco Atzeri
2015-09-10 13:18   ` Tomasz Pona
2015-09-10 14:10     ` Warren Young
2015-09-10 14:46       ` Tomasz Pona [this message]

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