From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 82749 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2015 14:10:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 82741 invoked by uid 89); 10 Sep 2015 14:10:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:10:18 +0000 Received: (qmail 45542 invoked by uid 13447); 10 Sep 2015 14:10:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO polypore.west.etr-usa.com) ([73.26.17.49]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Sep 2015 14:10:16 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: GCC 4.8 & cygwin32 vs. cygwin64 packages and installers From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: <55F18327.406@parasoft.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:10:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <99006DC9-589D-4757-832F-8CDA638E6884@etr-usa.com> References: <55F16830.9090506@parasoft.com> <55F17503.10209@gmail.com> <55F18327.406@parasoft.com> To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Tomasz Pona wrote: >=20 > This explains me everything except the versions available: 4.8 is still a= vailable as cross-compilers, but not as the standard one. Different people maintain those two package sets, and each package maintain= er is free to set their own policies for what constitutes the current and p= revious versions of any given package.=20=20 Your observation that one maintainer does one thing and another does someth= ing 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 Tim= e Machine: http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/