From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12211 invoked by alias); 20 May 2003 00:08:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 12196 invoked from network); 20 May 2003 00:08:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 May 2003 00:08:59 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4K08wH17735; Mon, 19 May 2003 20:08:58 -0400 Received: from post-office.corp.redhat.com (post-office.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.227]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4K08wI01953; Mon, 19 May 2003 20:08:58 -0400 Received: from greed.delorie.com (dj.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.0.222]) by post-office.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4K08wZ25731; Mon, 19 May 2003 20:08:58 -0400 Received: (from dj@localhost) by greed.delorie.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h4K08vR08264; Mon, 19 May 2003 20:08:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 00:33:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200305200008.h4K08vR08264@greed.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: stl@caltech.edu CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-reply-to: <000401c31e57$32c69910$3c9fd783@northwood> (stl@caltech.edu) Subject: Re: MinGW (Was: Re: PROPOSAL: Variation on an Alternate policy for obsoleting targets) References: <000401c31e57$32c69910$3c9fd783@northwood> X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01822.txt.bz2 > However, there are some platforms which are supported by non-gcc > developers and aren't useful as-is from FSF sources, yet the > platform's users desperately wish that gcc would work as-is. The solution to that, is to make those non-gcc developers gcc maintainers. > Given MinGW's importance as the only real way to run gcc on Windows, > I don't see why it's not even a secondary platform for gcc. So make Danny the MinGW maintainer for GCC. > I live in mortal fear that some day the MinGW developers will lose > interest/be hit by a truck/whatever, and gcc will suddenly become > unusable on Windows. Don't forget about Cygwin and DJGPP, which also produce programs that run under Windows. Not that I'm putting down MinGW, of course ;-)