* life expectancy of gcc 3.x @ 2006-08-02 14:05 Charles D. Russell 2006-08-02 14:15 ` Christopher Faylor 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Charles D. Russell @ 2006-08-02 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-talk cygwin 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). ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: life expectancy of gcc 3.x 2006-08-02 14:05 life expectancy of gcc 3.x Charles D. Russell @ 2006-08-02 14:15 ` Christopher Faylor 2006-08-02 14:24 ` Dave Korn 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Christopher Faylor @ 2006-08-02 14:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x 2006-08-02 14:15 ` Christopher Faylor @ 2006-08-02 14:24 ` Dave Korn 2006-08-02 19:08 ` Igor Peshansky 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Dave Korn @ 2006-08-02 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 'oh no an on-topic post! boooooo!' 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.... ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x 2006-08-02 14:24 ` Dave Korn @ 2006-08-02 19:08 ` Igor Peshansky 2006-08-02 19:21 ` Dave Korn 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Igor Peshansky @ 2006-08-02 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment. I can't predict what might > happen then. You'll get g__ ? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x 2006-08-02 19:08 ` Igor Peshansky @ 2006-08-02 19:21 ` Dave Korn 2006-08-02 19:25 ` Igor Peshansky 2006-08-02 19:40 ` mwoehlke 0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Dave Korn @ 2006-08-02 19:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 'la de da de laaaaaa' On 02 August 2006 20:08, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > >> OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment. I can't predict what might >> happen then. > > You'll get g__ ? > Igor Well, in the spirit of C#, shouldn't that be called Gb ? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x 2006-08-02 19:21 ` Dave Korn @ 2006-08-02 19:25 ` Igor Peshansky 2006-08-02 19:40 ` mwoehlke 1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Igor Peshansky @ 2006-08-02 19:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 02 August 2006 20:08, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment. I can't predict what might > >> happen then. > > > > You'll get g__ ? > > Igor > > Well, in the spirit of C#, shouldn't that be called Gb ? You know, the moment I sent that message, I thought: "yeah, g-flat-flat". Except that it would be Gbb, of course (a.k.a. F). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: life expectancy of gcc 3.x 2006-08-02 19:21 ` Dave Korn 2006-08-02 19:25 ` Igor Peshansky @ 2006-08-02 19:40 ` mwoehlke 1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: mwoehlke @ 2006-08-02 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-talk Dave Korn wrote: > On 02 August 2006 20:08, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote: >>> OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment. I can't predict what might >>> happen then. >> You'll get g__ ? >> Igor > > Well, in the spirit of C#, shouldn't that be called Gb ? Hear, hear, I nominate that for a real product! Maybe the GNU version of a .NET compiler? (Or is it "Here, here"? I can't remember...) Wow, that's the best I've seen on here recently :-D. -- Matthew Do not expose to hippos. Doing so may void your warranty. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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